The vision manufacturing operation at Johnson and Johnson.The vision manufacturing operation at Johnson and Johnson.
Johnson & Johnson's manufacturing campus for ACUVUE lenses is at 7500 Centurion Parkway. It also is building a distribution center near Jacksonville International Airport. | Johnson and Johnson

Johnson & Johnson announces $1B investment in vision operations in Jacksonville

Published on June 15, 2026 at 11:19 am
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Johnson & Johnson announced Monday that it will invest more than $1 billion in Jacksonville to strengthen its Vision operations.

The New Jersey-based healthcare company said in a news release that it will scale its U.S.-based manufacturing, packaging and distribution capabilities as it builds a Jacksonville distribution center and invests in advanced manufacturing and packaging technologies to add capacity and meet demand for its ACUVUE-brand contact lenses. 

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“This investment reinforces our long-standing conviction that advanced manufacturing in the United States is essential to delivering innovative, high quality healthcare solutions to patients at home and around the world,” Joaquin Duato, chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, said in the news release.


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