Pharmaceutical firm BioMarin opens €38m Cork manufacturing plant

It is the company's only manufacturing site outside the US

Geraldine Cregan, executive director and quality site head, BioMarin; Conor Delaney, VP, Shanbally operations and site leader, BioMarin; Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, and Finance Minister Michael McGrath at the opening of BioMarin's new facility in Shanbally, Co Cork, on Friday. Picture: Michael O'Sullivan /OSM

Pharmaceutical firm BioMarin opened its new €38m site in Shanbally, Co Cork, the company's only manufacturing site outside the US.

The new facility, opened on Friday by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, will manufacture, package and label BioMarin therapies for global distribution.