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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
140 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 October 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2022
Foreseen end date
Description
Pharmaceutical multinational, GE Healthcare, has announced it will hire 140 employees for its plant in Carrigtwohill, Cork. Recruitment has begun and includes project managers, operatives, engineers, quality control personnel and facility management. The expansion is connected to the new opening of a € 30.5m manufacturing line at the facility. The company estimates that the new manufacturing line will increase production capacity at the Cork facility by over 50 percent by 2025.
GE Healthcare’s Carrigtwohill facility opened in 1993 and currently employs 765 people.
Eurofound (2022), GE Healthcare, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 107691, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107691.
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