Aerogen switches nebuliser plant from China to Galway

GALWAY drug delivery company Aerogen has decided to repatriate a nebuliser production line that it had outsourced to China since 2007.

Now bucking the ‘outsourced to China’ trend, Aerogen has decided to partner with Molex Corporation in Shannon. Molex will manage all aspects of manufacturing, including the design of the automation units. Aerogen will redesign the product to optimise it for automated production.

Aerogen founder and chief executive, John Power, explains: “Now that we’ve moved to automated production, we can manufacture these nebulisers more cheaply in Ireland. And we can take advantage of the excellent skills of Irish engineers in this area.