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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32.5 - Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 September 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2022
Foreseen end date
Description
With the opening of a new gene therapy plant in Shannon, Ireland, multinational Biotech company MeiraGTx has announced it has created 300 new jobs. The company is currently recruiting for positions in engineering, QA, and manufacturing and supply. The first phase of recruitment will see 100 new jobs created, with plans to increase this to 300 as they scale up their manufacturing and testing production. The opening of the plant in September 2022 is the first commercial scale gene therapy manufacturing facility in Ireland.
Eurofound (2022), MeiraGTx, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 107471, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107471.
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