Merck Announces $1 Billion Investment in Delaware, 500 Full-Time Jobs

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Merck Announces $1 Billion Investment in Delaware, 500 Full-Time Jobs
The Merck logo at a gate to the Merck & Co. campus in Rahway, N.J. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Naveen Athrappully
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Pharmaceutical company Merck will invest $1 billion to build a 470,000-square-foot facility in Wilmington, Delaware, in a bid to boost domestic production, the company said in an April 29 statement.

The facility, located at the Chestnut Run Innovation & Science Park, is expected to create “more than 500 full-time roles and roughly 4,000 construction jobs,” the company stated.

Naveen Athrappully
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