'Unsustainable:' Bloomington Catalent facility cuts 150 more jobs; in December 2022 it announced 400 layoffs as COVID pandemic abated

“Unfortunately we didn’t anticipate the unprecedented complexity involved in exiting the pandemic, both operationally and financially, and the difficulty of pivoting this site to non-COVID programs,” said Anibal Carlo, vice president and general manager of the Bloomington facility.

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“Among other problems, we created an infrastructure — people and processes — that is too costly and, therefore, unsustainable,” Carlo said.

Carlo made those comments in an internal announcement that an employee shared with The Herald-Times.

In an email, company spokeswoman Laine Mello said global demand for vaccines declined sharply as the pandemic receded, requiring the company to make adjustments.