Mer­ck KGaA for­ti­fies its ‘site of the fu­ture’ with $319M re­search, staff train­ing cen­ters

Every­thing be­gan in 1668, in Darm­stadt, Ger­many — so goes Mer­ck KGaA’s de­scrip­tion of its glob­al head­quar­ters. And the con­glom­er­ate has been clear that it’s not go­ing any­where else, un­veil­ing plans in 2019 to lav­ish $1.18 bil­lion on the site over the com­ing years.

Mer­ck KGaA has just mapped out an­oth­er sub­stan­tial chunk of that in­vest­ment pack­age.

The next stage in­volves pour­ing $319 mil­lion in­to two new in­sti­tu­tions: a trans­la­tion­al sci­ence cen­ter for sci­en­tists in its health­care busi­ness unit, as well as a new learn­ing cen­ter to on­board new em­ploy­ees.

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