120 jobs come on stream at Genzyme

WATERFORD-based biotechnology company Genzyme is to provide 120 jobs by the end of next year.

The latest recruitment drive will bring to just under 400 the numbers employed there and is part of a €125 million expansion officially opened yesterday by Tánaiste Mary Harney.

The new ‘biologics fill and finish facility’ will manufacture a range of biological products for the global healthcare market. The company has already invested €200m at its plant on the IDA estate in the city.