Steris, a medical equipment maker, will invest $600 million to build a manufacturing and distribution hub in North Carolina for chemicals used by healthcare and pharmaceutical customers.

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The new 600,000-square-foot facility will be built near North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle region and produce chemicals used in infection prevention and contamination control. The company plans to move its existing chemicals operations from St. Louis, Missouri and Plymouth, Minnesota to the new facility after the project is completed.

Steris expects the site to become operational in two to three years, with distribution activities set to kick off before manufacturing operations. The new campus is expected to create about 335 jobs across manufacturing, research and development and distribution.

State and local economic development programs in North Carolina, Lee County and the city of Sanford are supporting the investment. Steris selected North Carolina after evaluating several locations, citing access to technical talent and skills in the region.

Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.