Green light for MSD Carlow expansion to result in 300 new jobs

Multinational healthcare and pharmaceutical giant MSD has been granted approval for a significant expansion to its existing manufacturing facilities in Carlow, which will allow for the generation of almost 300 additional jobs.

The granting of planning permission will now lead to MSD targeting a 2022 opening date for the new facility, which will be located adjacent to its existing Carlow plant, which opened in 2008 and was MSD's first vaccine-producing facility situated outside the US.