Lebanon API and Advanced Therapies Expansion

Lilly's May 2026 $4.5 billion expansion across its Lebanon API and Advanced Therapies sites. The announcement did not state a separate incremental permanent-job total, so AFT records zero rather than duplicating the base campus's 900 jobs. It excludes the separately announced $4.5B Medicine Foundry and the original $9B API-and-Advanced-Therapies campus commitment.

Investment
$4.50B
Permanent jobs announced
0
Status
Under Construction
Opening timeline
Mixed status — the Lebanon Advanced Therapies facility opened May 6, 2026, while the API site and the separately tracked Medicine Foundry remain under construction. Lilly has not supplied a new project-wide opening date for this expansion.
Why this project qualifies

With $4.5 billion in facility-specific investment, this project clears AFT's $100 million investment threshold (AFT includes any project meeting $100 million in facility-specific investment OR 100 permanent operating jobs). This project also meets AFT's primary-source verification and physical U.S. manufacturing-footprint requirements.

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Why it matters

The pharmaceuticals context.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers are committing billions to new U.S. production capacity for active ingredients, injectable medicines, biologics and other high-demand treatments. North Carolina and Indiana remain major centers of investment, while new facilities are being planned across the South. The current project pipeline includes both large greenfield campuses and major expansions of established production sites.

Project record

At a glance

Company
Eli Lilly
Industry
Pharmaceuticals
Location
Lebanon, Indiana
Investment
$4.50B
Permanent jobs announced
0
Status
Under Construction
Announced
May 6, 2026
Opening timeline
the Lebanon Advanced Therapies facility opened May 6, 2026, while the API site and the separately tracked Medicine Foundry remain under construction. Lilly has not supplied a new project-wide opening date for this expansion.
Added to tracker
Aug 30, 2026
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