French life sciences firm Roquette is planning to build a $25 million regional headquarters in the Spring House Innovation Park in Lower Gwynedd, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal.

The 23,000-square-foot complex will include a research and development lab along with an innovation center. It is expected to open in the summer of 2022.

This new facility will create 30 jobs over the next three years.

Roquette produces plant-based ingredients that are used by pharmaceutical and nutraceutical companies. The new complex will be home to an applied sciences facility that will focus on the research of excipients for oral dosage forms, drug delivery systems, and nutraceuticals, as well as other pharmaceutical ingredients.

A technical services laboratory will also be added to the site to make it possible for “a deeper level of collaboration” with customers that are formulating drugs in new product pipelines.

 “As an important hub for innovation in the U.S., Pennsylvania is the ideal location to enable us to collaborate more effectively with our partners and help address important future nutrition and health challenges,” said Paul Smaltz, vice president of pharmaceutical solutions at Roquette.

Read more about Roquette, the French Life Sciences firm, in the Philadelphia Business Journal.