Am­gen breaks ground on New Al­bany, OH man­u­fac­tur­ing plant of the fu­ture — re­port

Am­gen an­nounced back in June that it would spend $365 mil­lion to build its man­u­fac­tur­ing plant of the fu­ture in New Al­bany, OH, com­plete with self-dri­ving ve­hi­cles and da­ta-gath­er­ing tools to en­sure ef­fi­cien­cy. To­day, that jour­ney be­gins.

The Cal­i­for­nia-based biotech will break ground to­day on its new as­sem­bly and pack­ag­ing plant, which is es­ti­mat­ed to cre­ate 400 new jobs in the area just 18 miles north­east of Colum­bus, ac­cord­ing to a re­port by the Colum­bus Dis­patch. The new fa­cil­i­ty will fur­ther Am­gen’s ca­pa­bil­i­ties to make med­i­cines set for dis­tri­b­u­tion in the US, it said in a state­ment a few months ago.

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