{"id":100920,"date":"2026-01-30T18:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100920\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:08:06","slug":"drugmaker-eli-lilly-announces-new-plant-in-pennsylvania-as-part-of-domestic-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100920\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugmaker Eli Lilly announces new plant in Pennsylvania as part of domestic expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. says it&#8217;ll build a $3.5 billion manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania, as the company expands domestic production and capitalizes on surging sales of obesity and diabetes treatments<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8212; Drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. said Friday that it will build a $3.5 billion manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania, as the company expands domestic production and capitalizes on surging sales of obesity and diabetes treatments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly, maker of weight-loss treatment Zepbound and diabetes drug Mounjaro, is in the midst of a broader domestic expansion that includes new plants it has announced in Texas, Virginia and Alabama. Another facility is under construction in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The company said the new plant in Fogelsville, just outside Allentown, will make injectable drugs and devices, including producing weight-loss drug retatrutide, a once-a-week injectable drug that is still being studied and not available for public use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Construction was expected to begin this year and finish in 2031, it said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Sales of <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/eli-lilly-novo-diabetes-obesity-metsera-08fe7f6be16cceff891c173ca56888d0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zepbound and Mounjaro boosted the company&#8217;s third-quarter profit<\/a> to a record $5.58 billion. Third-quarter revenue was $17.6 billion, up more than 50% from the same quarter a year earlier. Zepbound and Mounjaro alone accounted for $10 billion in sales in the company&#8217;s third quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. says it&#8217;ll build a $3.5 billion manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania, as the company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49182,1165,60,40480,36444,38,1057,49180,45887,2305,28,30,29,49181,44,49179],"class_list":{"0":"post-100920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-49182","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-construction-and-engineering","12":"tag-diabetes","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-manufacturing-sector","16":"tag-medication","17":"tag-obesity","18":"tag-pennsylvania","19":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","20":"tag-pennsylvania-news","21":"tag-production-facilities","22":"tag-u-s-news","23":"tag-weight-management"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}