Eighty employees of Wyoming’s only drug manufacturing plant are feeling the pain of financially struggling Lannett. The opioid maker will close the plant in Cody and lay off its 80 remaining employees.
Lannett Company, Inc. has announced it will invest $50m into its generic analgesic manufacturing subsidiary Cody Labs, creating 45 new jobs in the Wyoming facility.
Cody Labs, which is based in Cody, WY, manufacturers APIs and finished dosage forms of pain relief medication. The company, which employs more than 100 people, was granted an import license in 2008 to import raw opiate material to produce painkillers.
Cody Laboratories, Inc., Ongoing Class II recall of C-Topical 4% CII (cocaine hydrochloride), topical solution, 4 ml bottle, (NDC 0527-1728-74), Rx Only, Manufactured for Lannett Company, Inc. Philadelphia, PA 19136 by Cody Laboratories, Inc. Cody, WY 82414 because of Labeling: Label mix-up; bottles were incorrectly labeled as 10 mL instead of correctly labeled as 4 mL