County commissioners tonight will consider offering tax incentives to a pharmaceutical company that wants to expand.  The move could add more than 150 jobs to the local area.

The company, EI, previously known as Harmony Labs, manufactures prescription pharmaceutical and over-the-counter products at its Rowan County facility.  They want to produce a new product line for a North Carolina-based biomaterials company.

If the expansion comes off as planned, it would create 154 new jobs that would pay an average wage of $41,106 per year, and increase the county’s tax base by investing about $28.45 million in new equipment and other improvements at the existing facility.

Commissioners will hold a public hearing at its 6 p.m. meeting on the second floor of the J. Newton Cohen Sr. Rowan County Administration Building.