A model of an empagliflozin molecule is placed in a time capsule at the groundbreaking ceremony for Boehringer Ingelheim's Chemical Innovation Plant. From L-R: Malu Dreyer, Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate; Boehringer Ingelheim chairman Hubertus von Baumbach; and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (Sebastian Gollnow/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Boehringer In­gel­heim to con­struct a $300M+ fa­cil­i­ty at its HQ

Boehringer In­gel­heim plans to make a ma­jor in­vest­ment in­to man­u­fac­tur­ing chem­i­cals and ac­tive phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal in­gre­di­ents close to home.

The Ger­man phar­ma on Tues­day broke ground on what it is dub­bing the “Chem­i­cal In­no­va­tion Plant” lo­cat­ed at its head­quar­ters in In­gel­heim, Ger­many. Boehringer is in­vest­ing €285 mil­lion ($313.4 mil­lion) in­to the plant, which will pro­duce APIs in ad­di­tion to drugs that are in­tend­ed to be used in clin­i­cal tri­als. The cen­ter will aim to ad­vance new drug can­di­dates from its pipeline in­to the tri­al space.

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