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Mon, February 23, 2026 astatine 11:09 AM CST 1 min read
Feb 23 (Reuters) - AbbVie connected Monday said it would put $380 cardinal to physique 2 caller progressive pharmaceutical constituent manufacturing facilities astatine its Illinois campus, expanding its home accumulation capableness for its neuroscience and obesity medicines.
The concern is portion of AbbVie's broader effort to standard up home manufacturing, arsenic drugmakers are scrambling to enactment up their U.S. manufacturing capableness and home inventory amid the Trump administration's hefty tariffs connected pharmaceutical imports into the country.
The U.S. authorities imposed a 100% tariff connected branded drugs successful October, but said it would lone use to producers who had not already breached crushed on U.S. manufacturing plants.
AbbVie said the operation astatine the caller installation successful North Chicago, Illinois would statesman successful outpouring 2026, with some caller facilities expected to beryllium afloat operational successful 2029.
The new facilities volition integrate precocious manufacturing technologies and artificial quality to enactment accumulation of aboriginal pipeline medicines, the institution said.
API accumulation - the process of making a drug's progressive chemic components - is 1 of the astir analyzable steps successful pharmaceutical manufacturing, the drugmaker said.
AbbVie said it plans to prosecute 300 people successful North Chicago, including engineers, scientists, manufacturing operators and laboratory technicians.
In January, it committed $100 cardinal implicit the adjacent decennary to U.S.-based probe and development, including an earlier $195 cardinal enlargement astatine the aforesaid North Chicago tract to boost API accumulation for immunology, oncology and neuroscience drugs.
AbbVie already has 11 manufacturing sites successful the U.S. and is besides successful discussions with aggregate U.S. states astir imaginable projects and expects to denote further investments successful 2026.
(Reporting by Siddhi Mahatole in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)
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