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Eli Lilly & Company will build a $5 billion pharmaceutical plant in Goochland County, Virginia.
The new facility is expected to create 650 permanent jobs and 1,800 construction jobs.
This plant will be Lilly's first dedicated solely to cancer and autoimmune disease treatments.
American pharmaceutical manufacturing giant Eli Lilly & Company says it plans to build a $5 billion plant in central Virginia that will create 650 high-paying factory jobs and another 1,800 jobs to build it.
Against the backdrop of Richmond's Main Street Station Sept. 16, the company's chair and chief executive officer, Dave Ricks, announced that the facility will be Lilly's first to be solely focused on making medicines and treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases. It is also Lilly's fi