Lyon

The French headquarters in Lyon.

With more than 1,500 employees, the Lyon area is now Boehringer Ingelheim's center of activity in France and home to six of the company’s ten French sites. The French headquarters and the Animal Health headquarters are situated in the life sciences district of Lyon. In this region, Boehringer Ingelheim is present across the entire animal health value chain: research and development, production, and supply of veterinary products. Since 2015, almost EUR 500 million have been invested into the R&D and production sites in Lyon.

Lyon Porte-des-Alpes is one of the largest veterinary vaccine production sites in the world.

The Grand Lyon Industrial Biologic Center is one of the largest supply centers in Boehringer Ingelheim’s global network and gathers three core facilities:

• Lyon-Porte-des-Alpes, a Research & Development and Production center for veterinary vaccines, particularly expert in infectious diseases.
• Lentilly, a distribution center, responsible for packaging and storage of veterinary vaccines.
• Lyon-Jonage, a strategic vaccine production center for veterinary public health, which represents a major investment of EUR 300 million and will be operational in 2023.

The future Lyon-Jonage facility.

On top of that, Lyon has two other major sites: While Saint-Vulbas is a global clinical research center for veterinary vaccines and pharmaceutical products, Lyon-Gerland is currently in the process of being reconverted.