Eli Lilly and Company and the Lehigh Valley are joining together to build a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility that will be designed for the research and production of injectable weight loss medications.
On Jan. 30 at Curiosity Hall in the Da Vinci Science Center, Allentown, an assortment of community members, business and political stakeholders joined Eli Lilly Chair and Chief Executive Officer Dave Ricks and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to announce a major collaboration.
Ricks said it is expanding manufacturing sites in the United States and considered 800 applicants for this project before choosing the Lehigh Valley. He credits the tenacity of Shapiro as this project will come to fruition at a site in Upper Macungie…