{"id":307904,"date":"2026-10-16T11:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307904\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:56:07","slug":"merck-expands-near-philadelphia-as-riverside-plant-winds-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307904\/","title":{"rendered":"Merck Expands Near Philadelphia As Riverside Plant Winds Down |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/merck.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-615095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/merck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\"  \/><\/a>RIVERSIDE \u2014 While Merck is closing its longtime manufacturing operation in Northumberland County, the pharmaceutical company is preparing a major expansion elsewhere in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The Riverside closure has already eliminated many jobs, with remaining shutdown work continuing.\u00a0 Meantime. the state says Merck will invest $2.9 billion to expand its Montgomery County operations through 2030. Pennsylvania is providing $5 million to support the growth.<\/p>\n<p>The investment includes a new $550 million research and development facility at Merck\u2019s West Point campus, using robotics and artificial intelligence to help develop medicines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIVERSIDE \u2014 While Merck is closing its longtime manufacturing operation in Northumberland County, the pharmaceutical company is preparing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-307904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307904","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=307904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}