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25/06/2004
Tánaiste announces 1,000 new jobs in Co Tipperary
A leading US medical technology firm is to expand its Co Tipperary manufacturing facility with the creation of 1,000 new jobs.
Guidant Corporation will create 500 new high quality manufacturing jobs over the next three years at its Clonmel plant before adding a further 500 new jobs as the operations develop.
The investment is supported by IDA Ireland and recruitment will commence in 2005, with the jobs requiring Leaving Certificate and third-level diploma, certificate and degree qualifications. It will also result in the construction of a new 125,000 sq. ft. building at the site.
Announcing the investment, the Tánaiste said: “This project will involve the manufacture of sophisticated, high value, development-intensive products for which Guidant is a world leader. The investment represents an important endorsement of Ireland’s on-going ability to attract large scale, technology driven projects.
“The new jobs will be in a broad range of areas including production, operations and quality control. The high value of this project is reflected in the above average wage levels and the new expansion brings significant new employment opportunities for the people of Co. Tipperary and the surrounding counties.”
Guidant designs, develops and manufactures minimally invasive products for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. The expansion in Clonmel is the result of Guidant now entering the higher value, next generation of stents.
These new products are coated with a drug and when the stent is inserted in the body the drug is locally administered in a controlled release method to prevent the re-blocking of arteries.
The Clonmel operation will have responsibility for preparing the new products bringing them from the R&D stage in the US to first time volume production.
Guidant Corporation will create 500 new high quality manufacturing jobs over the next three years at its Clonmel plant before adding a further 500 new jobs as the operations develop.
The investment is supported by IDA Ireland and recruitment will commence in 2005, with the jobs requiring Leaving Certificate and third-level diploma, certificate and degree qualifications. It will also result in the construction of a new 125,000 sq. ft. building at the site.
Announcing the investment, the Tánaiste said: “This project will involve the manufacture of sophisticated, high value, development-intensive products for which Guidant is a world leader. The investment represents an important endorsement of Ireland’s on-going ability to attract large scale, technology driven projects.
“The new jobs will be in a broad range of areas including production, operations and quality control. The high value of this project is reflected in the above average wage levels and the new expansion brings significant new employment opportunities for the people of Co. Tipperary and the surrounding counties.”
Guidant designs, develops and manufactures minimally invasive products for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. The expansion in Clonmel is the result of Guidant now entering the higher value, next generation of stents.
These new products are coated with a drug and when the stent is inserted in the body the drug is locally administered in a controlled release method to prevent the re-blocking of arteries.
The Clonmel operation will have responsibility for preparing the new products bringing them from the R&D stage in the US to first time volume production.
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