Wearing white gloves and holding gold scissors, Korean, state and local officials cut a ribbon marking Samsung Biologics‘ first U.S.-based manufacturing facility.
The South Korean company acquired the former GlaxoSmithKline building in Rockville. Samsung Biologics will take over the work that currently is being conducted there and retain GSK’s 500 employees and expects to announce expansion plans soon.
Gov. Wes Moore called Tuesday’s ribbon cutting “a very important day for the state of Maryland, a very important day for the life science industry and a very important day for progress.”…