Eli Lilly Lebanon (LEAP) Manufacturing Site
Eli Lilly and Company, Lebanon, Indiana
Eli Lilly's manufacturing campus in the LEAP Lebanon Innovation District in Boone County, Indiana, makes active pharmaceutical ingredients, including for Mounjaro and Zepbound, and genetic medicines. Investments announced from 2022 to 2024 total more than $13 billion. A Lilly Medicine Foundry for new production methods and clinical trial medicines is scheduled to open in late 2027.
- Company
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Status
- Opened
- Not stated
- Employees
- Not stated
- Industry
- Pharmaceuticals
- Revised
- November 12, 2026
What is made here
Active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and genetic medicines, with a research-and-manufacturing Medicine Foundry for clinical trial medicines planned.
Facts
| Lebanon sites | Lilly lists three Lebanon sites announced since 2020: Lebanon API and the Lilly Medicine Foundry, both API sites, and Lebanon Advanced Therapies, which will make genetic medicines (company: prnewswire.com) |
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| Medicine Foundry | The Foundry will focus on new production methods and on making medicines for clinical trials (company: prnewswire.com) |
| Investment | Investments announced from 2022 to 2024 total more than $13 billion; the Foundry, announced in October 2024, adds $4.5 billion and about 400 jobs (news: insideindianabusiness.com) |
| Products | Earlier investments fund plants that make active ingredients for drugs such as Mounjaro and Zepbound, plus cell and gene therapies (news: insideindianabusiness.com) |
| Timeline and site | The Foundry is scheduled to open in late 2027 as seven main buildings; the site grows by about 200 acres from 600 acres in the LEAP Lebanon Innovation District (news: insideindianabusiness.com) |
Figures are as stated by the source named next to each one. Company figures are the company's own claims.
Can you visit?
We haven't found a public tour of this factory. See factory tours in Indiana.
Sources
- Lilly release: Richmond groundbreaking, Oct. 2026 (lists Lebanon sites) (company, checked November 12, 2026)
- Inside Indiana Business: Lilly Medicine Foundry, Oct. 2024 (news, checked November 12, 2026)
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