Dave A Ricks

Chair & CEO @EliLillyandCo. Building on 150 years of advancing human health by delivering breakthrough medicines and expanding access worldwide.

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@JCanNuSH LillyDirect!

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This is the team that runs our medicine factory in Research Triangle Park, Lilly’s first new U.S. site in 40 years when announced. It makes the leading medicine for obesity and diabetes for millions of US patients.

Building it was harder than we thought: 3.5 years from announcement to first pack, six years to peak capacity. Pharma patent clocks and build clocks don't line up unless you design a platform - one that runs follow-on products and that the third, fourth, and fifth plants can reuse. We did.

Thank you, North Carolina state and local leaders, and a workforce that delivered. You set the template.
We're now building/built in Concord, Kenosha, Huntsville, Houston, Lebanon ( a town in Indiana!), Richmond, and the Lehigh Valley.

What still slows delivery: permit timelines and associated NIMBYisms, grid connections that aren't ready when the steel is, and big labor gaps in the building trades. The fixes are straightforward. Moving colleges and state, local, and federal agencies all at once is not.
Building is hard. Doing it in America is worth it.
#WeAreLilly

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