On Mar. 26, 2015, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, announced plans to invest more than $125 million for the expansion of its fill/finish facility in Hillsboro, Oregon. Genentech opened operations in Hillsboro in April 2010. The site is home to a state-of-the-art fill/finish facility and warehousing and distribution center.

The California-based Genentech was founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert Boyer. Boyer and geneticist Stanley Cohen at Stanford University pioneered recombinant DNA technology.