Beyond the Smoke Stacks: Texas Ropes in $4 Billion Pharma-Bio Investment

SUGAR LAND--January 17, 2017--Reported by Annette Kreuger, Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--When many people hear the word "Texas," it evokes a number of clichés, typically a mélange of cattle, chemical plants, oil and gas drilling, and rodeos. But that sells the state short, for beyond the smoke stacks of the hundreds of the state's chemical processing plants and refineries are a surprising number of life-science manufacturing plants and research centers.

Within this article: Details on some of the highest-valued projects in the Texas Pharmaceutical & Biotech Industry, including those from major companies such as Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), Allergan plc (NYSE:AGN), Lonza Group and Novartis (NYSE:NVS).