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Genentech, AbbVie Add To Drug Plants

by Rick Mullin
April 6, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 14

Genentech will invest $125 million to expand its pharmaceutical fill-and-finish facility in Hillsboro, Ore. The company plans to add 100 skilled manufacturing jobs at the site, which includes a warehousing and distribution center, over the next five years. This would bring the total number of Genentech employees in the state to more than 500. AbbVie, meanwhile, will spend $30 million to expand a plant in Barceloneta, P.R., a city where it makes both small-molecule and biologic drug active ingredients.

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