Company excursions at Roche, Mannheim

Roche was founded in Basel, Switzerland, in 1896 as one of the first industrial manufacturers of branded pharmaceuticals and has developed into the world's largest biotechnology company and the global market leader in in vitro diagnostics. The Mannheim site, with the manufacturing companies Roche Diagnostics GmbH and Roche Diabetes Care GmbH and the German sales companies Roche Diagnostics Deutschland GmbH and Roche Diabetes Care Deutschland GmbH, is Roche's third-largest site worldwide with around 8,400 employees. Among other things, products and solutions for people with diabetes or cardiovascular diseases are developed here, for example blood glucose monitoring systems. Within the Roche Group, Mannheim is also one of three centres of excellence for parenteral medicines, i.e. medicines that are administered as injections or infusions. In addition, important products for in-vitro diagnostics are produced in Mannheim. Daily, products from the global logistics centre for Roche Diagnostics in Mannheim are shipped to more than 170 countries.