Citing a conversation with Eli Lilly (LLY) CEO David Ricks, President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the weight loss drugmaker plans to build six “big” manufacturing plants in the U.S.
“I spoke with the head of Eli Lilly, who’s a fantastic guy, a star actually—he’s a star, very smart—and he told me he’s building six plants in the United States, big ones,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting at the White House.
The Indiana-based pharma giant pledged to begin construction work on four domestic manufacturing sites last year as part of a plan to more than double its recent investments in domestic medicine production to over $50B.
The company has already named Alabama, Virginia, and Texas as sites for three of those plants.
