American medical manufacturer Becton Dickinson said Oct. 6 it will invest $19 billion in the United States over several years under a partnership with the federal government, in exchange for relief from future tariffs if it meets agreed milestones.
The Franklin Lakes, N.J., company said $3 billion of that sum will go to manufacturing expansion at strategic sites. It plans to raise its end-to-end U.S. manufacturing by about 5 billion essential medical consumables a year, which is 80 percent of its sales. All needles sold are to be made here, with American-made steel.
Becton Dickinson, which calls itself the nation’s largest maker of essential medical consumables, said those products are used in about 90 percent of U.S. hospital visits. Its U.S. network includes plants in Columbus and Broken Bow, Nebraska.; Canaan, Connecticut.; Añasco, Puerto Rico; Sandy, Utah; El Paso, Texas; Covington, Georgia.; and Sumter, South Carolina. …