Charles River

Charles River Laboratories, a biotechnology company in the Riverside Research Park near Monocacy Boulevard, will close the Frederick location in 2018.

Biotechnology company Charles River Laboratories will close its Frederick facility next year, a move that will impact its 57 employees there, according to the company and information from Maryland’s Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation.

The shutdown of the research model production facility at 8501 Progress Drive in Frederick is expected to begin in March and stretch through August, according to the DLLR website.

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des21

Clearly, this is Trump's fault.

DickD

Was anything done to keep this business in Frederick?

elymus43

Aren't businesses supposed to be rushing to Frederick city and county??????

MostWantedBlackVeteran

Any company only profiting 153m annually carrying 11k employees is ripe for contraction.

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