Posted on 01/15/2026 4:36:32 PM PST by CFW
(The Center Square) – A major American medical device manufacturer is investing $110 million to expand production in Nebraska as part of an effort to restore pharmaceutical manufacturing and improve domestic supply chains.
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) announced this week that it will expand its facility in Columbus, Nebraska, to increase production of prefillable syringes used in biologic drugs, including GLP-1 weight loss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy. The investment is expected to create about 120 new jobs, according to a press release from the company.
The expansion comes as the Trump administration has urged pharmaceutical and medical manufacturers to move production back to the United States, citing supply chain vulnerabilities exposed during the coronavirus pandemic and increased demand for various medications.
BD said the Nebraska investment is part of a bigger commitment to spend over $2.5 billion on U.S. manufacturing over the next five years.
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They could hire some of the people who think they are animals to load the product, that way they could have a furry with the syringe on top.
Your anti American worker sarcasm has been duly noted.
If I could wrap my hands around the neck of Clateo Castellini for shipping syringe production from that Nebraska plant to China...
I told him up front to his face that they’d rip off the process and do it themselves for less. He’d wind up having wasted a bucket of dough and destroying his margins in the process. And all he could say is, “We can’t ignore that size of a market.” As if BD would be supplying it in the end.
Just another corporate idiot.
I see what you did there...
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