Type
Business expansion
Country
Ireland
Region
Border, Midland and Western; West; West
Location of affected unit(s)
Shannon
Sector
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
Job creation
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.  


Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2022), MeiraGTx, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 107471, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107471.