Dairygold to double research and development staff with €15.6m centre

DAIRYGOLD Co-op is to establish a new €15.6 million applied food sciences research and development centre in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, to drive the development of innovative consumer food products and food ingredients.

Enterprise, Trade and Employment Minister Micheál Martin, who announced the decision in Mitchelstown yesterday, said the new centre, supported by Enterprise Ireland, will be operational by the end of 2007.

It will lead to the creation of high quality employment for 15 graduates in food sciences, three of them to PhD level, with the remaining 12 to Masters and BSc levels.