How Mylan's closure of its West Virginia plant was years in the making

MORGANTOWN — The announcement came a couple of weeks before Christmas: The Morgantown Mylan plant was closing and around 1,400 people would lose their jobs.

County officials were outraged. Workers said they were blindsided.

“I walked around in a daze,” one former employee previously told Mountain State Spotlight.

But there had been warning signs about the Mylan Morgantown plant’s ultimate fate for years, even before the speciality and generic drug manufacturer merged with Pfizer-owned Upjohn to create a new company called Viatris. That merger was finalized in November 2020.

Monongalia County Commissioner Tom Bloom says he’s been worried about the plant closing for the past decade.

Read more: https://mountainstatespotlight.org/2021/08/10/how-mylans-closure-of-its-wv-plant-was-years-in-the-making/