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Mer­ck shut­ters French re­search site in a re­or­ga­ni­za­tion aimed at elim­i­nat­ing more than 200 jobs

Mer­ck is shut­ter­ing a tox­i­col­o­gy re­search cen­ter in cen­tral France and scal­ing back on its man­u­fac­tur­ing op­er­a­tions in the area, lay­ing off more than 200 staffers in the process.

La Mon­tagne re­port­ed that the move will elim­i­nate 106 re­search jobs, with more than 100 man­u­fac­tur­ing po­si­tions on the chop­ping block as well.

Ac­cord­ing to Mer­ck, the pro­duc­tion fa­cil­i­ties have been un­der­uti­lized and it’s been run­ning a small­er and small­er num­ber of tox stud­ies at the site, lead­ing to the plans to wind down op­er­a­tions. The phar­ma play­er is look­ing for a buy­er to car­ry on the man­u­fac­tur­ing ef­fort.

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