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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32.5 - Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 April 2022
Employment effect (start)
25 April 2022
Foreseen end date
30 April 2024
Description
Healthcare company Vitalograph is to create 200 new jobs in Ireland over the next two years, following a €10 million investment. The jobs will be based in counties Clare ad Limerick. The company will expand its base in Clare, where it currently employs 170 people, and will open a new site in Limerick. Recruitment for the new jobs has already begun and new positions are in data analysis, site support services, software engineering, quality assurance and IT support.
Vitalograph manufactures diagnostic respiratory devices and provides clinical drug trial services. It has been operating in Ennis Co. Clare since 1974.
Eurofound (2022), Vitalograph, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 106707, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106707.
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