UP TO 350 jobs are to be created in Dublin and Cork as part of three projects, details of which were unveiled yesterday. The projects backed by the IDA and Forbairt will entail total investment of £13.5 million.
DOVatron Ireland, B.V in Kilbarry Industrial Park, Cork, is to undertake a major expansion in Cork which will generate 100 new jobs over the next three years. The IDA supported £4.4 million investment will bring employment at DOVatron to 420 people.
The plant was established in 1992 as an electronic contract manufacturing operation following the takeover of the Western Digital facility at Kilbarry.
DOVatron provides full turnkey manufacturing solutions across the electronics manufacturing sector, including telecommunications, medical electronics and personal and mainframe computer industries.
The company is to double the size of its 50,000 square foot manufacturing facility. It is also expanding its R&D activities.
Announcing the project, the Minister for Enterprise and Employment, Mr Bruton, said it was "precisely the kind of development we need in Ireland as it strengthens their capacity to take a proactive role in their own future.
Mr Michael Corkery, managing director and vice president of DOVatron, said the expansion was in phase with the increased demand for products and services from a growing electronics sector in Ireland and Europe".
DOVatron is part of the DII group which is based in Colorado.
Around 80 jobs will be created by Moog Ltd in Cork, which is expanding its electronics manufacturing operation in Ringaskidddy.
The IDA backed investment of £4.4 million involves transferring products from Moog's plants in the US and Europe to Cork. It will bring employment at the Ringaskiddy plant to 168 people.
Moog produces precision control systems and components for a range of aerospace and industrials applications. Employing 3,000 worldwide, it had sales of more than £250 million last year.
Although the company has factories in countries such as her many, England, Japan and India, the Cork plant has become the largest electronics manufacturing until within the Moog group.
Meanwhile, as reported in yesterday's Irish Times Walsh Western Group is to invest £3.5 million in an expansion of a logistics centre in Ballyfermot, Dublin.
Logistics is the flow of goods managed by warehouse and distribution systems and the flow of information and money through accounting and invoicing systems managed by Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).
The investment will create 164 jobs, around 70 of which will go to graduates.
The new centre will also carry out value added logistics services.
