North Carolina governor Roy Cooper, left, elbow bumps with Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies CEO Martin Meeson (Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP Images)

Drum­roll, please: Fu­ji­film Diosynth picks North Car­oli­na as new home for $2B cell-cul­ture su­per­plant

Fu­ji­film made waves ear­li­er this year when it an­nounced a new $2 bil­lion plant for its CD­MO arm — Fu­ji­fulm Diosynth Tech­nolo­gies — that few fa­cil­i­ties have matched in terms of dol­lar fig­ure. The on­ly thing left to de­cide is where ex­act­ly the fa­cil­i­ty would go, and now that mys­tery has been solved.

Fu­ji­film Diosynth Biotech­nolo­gies, the CD­MO arm of Japan’s tech and life sci­ences gi­ant, has se­lect­ed Hol­ly Springs, NC, as the site of its $2 bil­lion cell cul­ture su­per­plant, adding 725 jobs in the area by 2028, the com­pa­ny said Thurs­day.

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