Posted on 07/20/2017 2:55:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Trump administration on Thursday announced it is pouring $500 million into the production of glass pharmaceutical packaging as part of the president's "Made in America" week.
President Donald Trump met with representatives of Merck, Pfizer and Corning in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to announce the initiative. He said the investment would create nearly 1,000 jobs "quickly."
"This initiative will bring a key industry to our shores that for too long has been dominated by foreign countries," he said. "We're moving more and more companies back into the United States, and they're doing more and more of these products."
The glass vials and cartridges are used to store and deliver injectable drugs.
The Trump administration plans to spread the funds across facilities in New York, New Jersey and a new manufacturing plant in a yet-to-be-disclosed location in the Southeast.
Corning CEO Wendell Weeks showed off the durability of the glass to be used with a vise-like contraption. He asked Trump to push down on a lever to break one of the vials, but he was unable to.
"The important thing is, that Valor Glass vial is still intact and protecting the vial ingredients inside," Weeks said.
Also in attendance at the event were Merck CEO Ken Frazier and Pfizer CEO Ian Reed.
I watched that, he didn’t say he was pouring the money in, americium, Pfizer and Corning are investing the money. Unless I missed something
Oops that should have been a Merick
Has the press ever reported facts about him?
When you are the laughing stock of the country and the punchline to daily jokes and no one has told you, you run for President in the Democrat Party!
It is very unclear what role the government played in this.
That makes sense ,, Corning Glassworks is a quality producer ... just with Pyrex would revert to the old formula..
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