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Lilly announces more than $1.2 billion investment in Puerto Rico facility to boost oral medicine manufacturing capacity in the United States
Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced today a planned investment of more than $1.2 billion to expand and modernize its Lilly del Caribe manufacturing site in Carolina, Puerto Rico. This new investment will integrate advanced technologies and expand production capacity within the existing campus to support the company's growing portfolio of oral solid medicines in cardiometabolic health, neuroscience, oncology and immunology.
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