Siemens breaks ground on Walpole, Mass., manufacturing facility

2017-07-01
Siemens breaks ground on Walpole, Mass., manufacturing facility<br />
Siemens breaks ground on Walpole, Mass., manufacturing facility

Jun 30, 2017

Siemens broke ground on a major expansion of a key Siemens Healthineers manufacturing and R&D facility for laboratory diagnostics in Walpole, Mass. that will create up to 700 new high-tech jobs over the next 10 years. R&D efforts at the site bring new tests to the diagnostics market to help physicians diagnose and treat disease. Overall, Siemens Healthineers provides more than 10 billion diagnostic tests globally to laboratories each year. From left: Michael Sen (Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and Siemens Healthcare GmbH Supervisory Board Chairman), Franz Walt (President of Laboratory Diagnostics, Siemens Healthineers), Lisa Davis (Chair and CEO of Siemens Corporation and Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG).