{"id":101230,"date":"2026-01-31T00:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101230\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:35:31","slug":"eli-lilly-to-build-plant-in-pennsylvania-focused-on-drugs-for-weight-loss-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101230\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Lilly to build plant in Pennsylvania focused on drugs for weight-loss treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 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=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">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=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">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=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Construction was expected to begin this year and finish in 2031, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Sales of Zepbound and Mounjaro boosted the company\u2019s third-quarter profit 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\u2019s third quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 Drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. said Friday that it will build a $3.5 billion manufacturing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60,40480,36444,38,1057,49180,45887,2305,28,30,29,49181,44,49179],"class_list":{"0":"post-101230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-construction-and-engineering","10":"tag-diabetes","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-manufacturing-sector","14":"tag-medication","15":"tag-obesity","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","18":"tag-pennsylvania-news","19":"tag-production-facilities","20":"tag-u-s-news","21":"tag-weight-management"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101230","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=101230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}