Mer­ck to stop mak­ing APIs at Penn­syl­va­nia site and cut 300 jobs by 2024

In 2024, Mer­ck will dis­con­tin­ue its man­u­fac­tur­ing of ac­tive phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal in­gre­di­ents. And with that move, it will no longer need its Chero­kee man­u­fac­tur­ing site in Danville, PA.

The site will close when API pro­duc­tion stops, the com­pa­ny said to End­points News in a state­ment emailed Thurs­day. The news was first re­port­ed by lo­cal news­pa­per The Dai­ly Item Wednes­day. Coun­ty com­mis­sion­er Sam Schic­catano told the pa­per that the coun­ty was in­formed of the clo­sure that af­ter­noon. The plant is one of the area’s largest em­ploy­ers.

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