Wyeth goes Irish

Manufacturing News, Source : TheManufacturer.com
Published : 08 Sep 2005 22:03

Wyeth Co. has opened a $2 billion Irish production facility, making the US company the biggest pharmaceutical employer in Ireland.

The Madison, NJ-based company expects to employ about 1,000 people, including 100 researchers developing new products, at this 1.2 million-square-foot campus south of Dublin.

The facility will produce Enbrel, an injected arthritis treatment; Prevnar, a pneumococcal vaccine for children; and Tygacil, the first in a new antibiotic class aimed at serious, drug-resistant infections.

Wyeth already operates three smaller plants and employs about 2,000 people in Ireland, which has wooed dozens of US and European pharmaceutical companies over the past decade of economic boom. Today, the sector employs more than 17,000 people in a country of 4 million.

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