It was announced today that Repligen Corporation is set to significantly expand its manufacturing operations in Waterford, with plans to fit out a 33,000 square foot LEED Silver building that is expected to create 130 new jobs in the South East region of Ireland over the next two and a half years.
The facility will serve as a Centre of Excellence for single-use consumable products used in bioprocessing applications, and will complement the existing 10,500 square foot Waterford facility (formerly ARTeSYN BioSolutions, which Repligen acquired in Dec 2020) that currently employs 74 people. Repligen says this new facility is being built to increased demand for its state-of-the-art bioprocessing products.
Repligen plans to invest in building out the new Waterford plant as an innovation, assembly and production centre for a diverse portfolio of “plug-and-play” consumables, for use with state-of-the-art filtration and chromatography systems. These highly differentiated technologies are utilized by Repligen’s customers – primarily biopharmaceutical developers and contract development and manufacturing organizations worldwide – in the production of investigational and commercial-stage biological therapeutics and vaccines.
Welcoming the news yesterday, Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment,Leo Varadkar said, "This is excellent news from Repligen with the creation of 130 new jobs in Waterford. It comes on foot of a major jobs announcement by Bausch and Lomb. Waterford is on the move as a centre for jobs and investment. Ireland is globally recognised as a centre of excellence for life sciences and this significant expansion is a real vote of confidence in us and our capacity. It shows we are succeeding in attracting high-calibre companies and highly-skilled jobs to all our regions. I wish the team the very best with their expansion plans."
Managing Director at the Waterford site, Dr. Jonathan Downey added, "Having delivered beyond our commitment in 2019 to bring new jobs to the region through our development of high-end manufacturing capabilities, we are energized and excited about our integration with Repligen and this next phase of growth. In addition to our expansion of ARTeSYN products, and the transfer of manufacturing of certain of Repligen’s current products to our Irish operations, we expect to be utilising the Irish sites to advance additional Research, Development & Innovation programs."
Source: www.businessworld.ie