Johnson & Johnson announced Monday that it will invest more than $1 billion in Jacksonville to strengthen its vision operations.
The New Jersey-based healthcare giant said in a news release that it will scale its U.S.-based manufacturing, packaging and distribution capabilities as it builds a Jacksonville distribution center and invests in advanced manufacturing and packaging technologies to add capacity and meet demand for its Acuvue brand contact lenses.
“This investment reinforces our long-standing conviction that advanced manufacturing in the United States is essential to delivering innovative, high quality healthcare solutions to patients at home and around the world,” Joaquin Duato, chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, said in the news release.
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