Thermo Fisher to Expand in Greenville, Add 500 New Jobs
Thermo Fisher Scientific, a global life science services company with major operations in North Carolina, will add 500 new jobs in Greenville over the next two years as it expands its sterile drug product development and commercial manufacturing of critical medicines, therapies and vaccines.
The investment, approximately $500 million, will include a new, stand-alone, 130,000-square-foot facility with two live- virus filling lines that will be operational in 2022. The site will also add six new lines in 2021 and 2022, including commercial-scale liquid filling lines and a development line for liquid and lyophilized (freeze-dried) drug products.
by Barry Teater, NCBiotech Center December 10, 2020 .
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Thermo Fisher Scientific, a global life science services company with major operations in North Carolina, will add 500 new jobs in Greenville over the next two years as it expands its sterile drug product development and commercial manufacturing of critical medicines, therapies and vaccines.
The investment, approximately $500 million, will include a new, stand-alone, 130,000-square-foot facility with two live- virus filling lines that will be operational in 2022. The site will also add six new lines in 2021 and 2022, including commercial-scale liquid filling lines and a development line for liquid and lyophilized (freeze-dried) drug products.