Noramco, a subsidiary of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson, makes active pharmaceutical ingredients used in the medications and medical devices made by Johnson and Johnson subsidiaries (including Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Janssen, and Ethicon), as well as third parties. The company was founded in 1979 to support the manufacture of Ortho-McNeil's Tylenol with codeine line. It is one of a very few US companies allowed by the DEA to import opium for use in opiate painkillers, such as codeine and morphine. Noramco operates two manufacturing facilities in Athens, Georgia, and Wilmington, Delaware.