New Amgen plant shows potential of targeted tax incentives
JOBS COMING: Amgen Rhode Island’s new biomanufacturing plant in West Greenwich is expected to add 150 high-paying jobs there. Pictured is Rohan Persaud, Amgen’s plant manager and executive director. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM It’s hard to find economic success stories in a pandemic that aren’t somehow a result of the crisis, but there’s one standing on Amgen Rhode Island’s West Greenwich campus. A $200 million biomanufacturing plant – the first of its modular design in the United States – was finished this year. When it becomes fully operational…
Amgen’s new $200M next-gen biologic plant a first in U.S.
R.I. EXPANSION: Rohan Persaud, plant manager and executive director at Amgen Rhode Island, stands outside the company’s new next-generation biomanufacturing plant in West Greenwich. He is overseeing the startup and licensing of the facility. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM The cargo that arrived in 2019 at the Port of Davisville in North Kingstown from overseas was something that had never been shipped to the United States: Three shiploads of modular pieces and parts that when fully assembled would create a state-of-the-art “next-generation” biomanufacturing factory. The 120,000-square-foot structure had been mostly constructed in Shanghai, then…