Pharma packaging startup for hospitals building $50M Columbus-area plant, adding 300 jobs

A startup that compounds custom pharmaceuticals and prepackages them for hospitals plans to open a $50 million facility just west of Columbus and add 300 jobs.

The facility will be four to five times larger than its Denver home base.

Staq Pharma Inc. isn’t moving, but to oversee the project, the CEO did. Co-founder Joe Bagan bought a home in Upper Arlington last fall.

“When we’re doing a project this large, this is a bet-the-company project,” Bagan told Columbus Business First. “It deserves the attention of our CEO.”

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Written by Carrie Ghose.

Originally published March 3, 2022.