Top International life sciences players in Catalonia
Barcelona and Catalonia are a leading life sciences hub in Europe. Multinationals take advantage of a vast ecosystem of world-renowned hospitals, research centers, and providers to set up operations in Spain.

Discover their locations.
Top International Life Sciences Players In Catalonia.
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Grifols
Grifols is a global leader in the production of plasma-derived medicines and transfusion medicine, basing its worldwide headquarters and its Bioscience, Diagnostic and Hospital production plants in Catalonia.
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Novartis
Novartis Biome is active in Catalonia, with its Spanish HQ, one of its leading innovation hubs, 3 production plants (semi-synthetic penicillins, sterile penicillins, radiopharmaceuticals) and 1 Global Digital Hub.
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Bayer
Bayer has its Iberian HQ in Barcelona, as well as its LifeHub center for open innovation in digital therapies and agricultural transformation and a Shared Services Center for accounting services to European and Latin American subsidiaries.
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Roche
Roche’s Sant Cugat campus has a workforce of over 1,300, working in the Spanish subsidiaries of Diagnostics and Diabetes Care, as well as one of the group’s main innovation and R&D centers.
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Sanofi
From its Spanish HQ and the Global Innovation Center in Barcelona, Sanofi leads the entire group’s digital transformation. Its plant in Riells i Viabrea (Girona) - one of the group's most competitive - produces 5% of the world's manufacturing output.
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Boehringer Ingelheim
Boehringer Ingelheim's Spanish HQ is in Sant Cugat (Barcelona), as well as a strategically positioned Global Digital Hub and a Pharmaceutical Production Plant with a 500 person workforce which exports worldwide.
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B Braun Medical
Rubí (Barcelona) is home to B Braun Medical's corporate HQ, a manufacturing plant and a Worldwide Center of Excellence for the Closure Technologies range. A logistics center in Santa Oliva (Tarragona) provides national and international service.
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Menarini
The Italian group Menarini has 400 employees in Catalonia, as well as its Spanish HQ, a pharma production plant and one of its 6 global R&D&I centers.
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Astrazeneca
In 2022, Alexion - AstraZeneca’s Rare Disease group - established a global Development Hub in Barcelona to support the creation of innovative medicines for rare diseases. The hub is expected to employ 100 R&D specialists.
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Merck
Two of Merck's three production centers in Spain are located in Catalonia: a chemical plant and a pharmaceutical production plant in Mollet del Vallès (Barcelona), both recently enlarged with a €14.5 million investment.
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Towa Pharma
Towa Pharma's European HQ is in Catalonia, and since 2020 with a 850 workforce it has run a generics production plant, a pharmaceutical innovation team and the management of several commercial generics subsidiaries around the world.