Vivian Farrell discusses Modular Automation’s role in servicing the world’s leading MedTech companies.

Mary Buckley, IDA Ireland, outlines key findings in the IDA’s 2015-19 strategy review.

Investments in IDA- supported companies in the south east have risen by 86% over the past five years, while those in the south west region rose by 37%, the state agency said.

A survey conducted by the Irish Medtech Association (IMA), an Ibec group, has found that 74% of medtech businesses plan to increase R&D in Ireland during 2020.

Helen Kelleher talks to Ken Murphy of CareerWise Recruitment

Robots that work alongside human operators in assembly and on production lines can provide many benefits to companies, including cost savings, increased efficiency, improved safety and greater employee satisfaction.

Students can look forward to a healthy jobs market for the foreseeable future according to Ken Murphy of CareerWise Recruitment who says the market for graduates and others with qualifications has rarely been as healthy with many sectors at near full employment.

Young people are snapping up apprenticeships, availing of the chance to “earn and learn” across a range of skills areas not usually associated with the in-house training model.

A project to develop 16 houses in Pallaskenry, Co Limerick, has raised 100% of the €2.4m in funding that it pitched out to peer-to-peer investors just a few weeks ago.

Leading medical technology company Stryker today announced that it is to invest over €200m in Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) projects at three of its five Cork facilities.

Three staff from the Stryker Medical Devices plant at Carrigtwohill in Cork have been hospitalised and the plant has been evacuated after what is described as the escape of gas at around 1am today.

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Located in Cork’s Carrigtwohill IDA Business Park is an investment property with an international flavour you don’t normally expect in the southern capital’s commercial market.

Midleton firm is expanding with its cryogenic cleaning service, writes Trish Dromey.

Some 4,000 teenage girls will meet role models for advice on careers in science and technology next month.

The United States is to deploy an armoured brigade combat team to eastern Europe next February as part of ongoing efforts to reassure allies over threats from an increasingly aggressive Russia.

A warehouse building with other potential higher-end uses in Cork city’s western suburbs, close to third-level college CIT, has had a price slash, so that now it can be bought for one third the cost of comparable construction.

The Irish arm of US medical device manufacturer Stryker remained in profit last year after returning to the black in 2013, to record pre-tax profits of €87m.

One of the world’s leading medical technology companies is expected to announce the creation of hundreds of jobs with a multi-million euro investment in a new global centre of excellence in Co Cork.

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GRAPHIC harvester Naomi Fein has been enjoying huge success of late, giving Munster’s leading companies storyboard accounts of seminars, workshops and other events to take home and share with their colleagues.

A top US medical devices company has chosen Limerick to make its new product, creating 270 high-end graduate jobs.

Twenty new jobs have been announced for Co Cork.

A Cork-based medical firm that last year announced it was to cut 142 jobs has reversed its decision.

STRYKER, the US medical equipment manufacturer, which employs about 2,000 people in Ireland, has reported an 11% year-on-year increase in fourth quarter net sales, to $2.2bn (€1.7bn); adding that its earnings per share, for 2011, are likely to meet market expectations of between $3.72 and $3.74.

BOSTON Scientific is to seek planning permission for a €30 million development in Cork designed to secure the future of 600 jobs in the city.

THE US medical devices company that announced 142 job cuts in Cork earlier this year increased its pre-tax profits to €124.2 million last year, figures show.

MORE than 140 jobs at a US-owned medical devices plant in Cork are being moved to China and Malaysia because of competitiveness and cost issues.

A total of 142 jobs are to go at the Stryker manufacturing facility in Carraigtwohill, Co Cork, it has been announced.

STRYKER, the US multinational which makes surgical orthopaedic implants, yesterday announced it is to invest €30 million in its Limerick facility to ensure it can cope with the huge international demand for cobalt knees.

THE US-owned healthcare company Stryker is to take over part of Boston Scientific’s operations in Cork.

A SIGNIFICANT expansion is planned for Stryker’s Cork facility this year, resulting in job creation.

STRYKER does not anticipate that a voluntary recall of two replacement hip cups under its “Trident line” at its Cork facility will have a long-lasting disruptive effect on company supplies, said Stephen P MacMillan, Stryker’s president and chief executive.

MEDICAL device maker Stryker has launched an investigation into a potential manufacturing issue with a product made at its Cork facility following concerns from the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

STRYKER Ireland’s plant at Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, has been warned by the powerful US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to correct production failings.

Thousands of US troops swept house-to-house through mostly Shiite areas near a militia stronghold in the opening phase of the long-awaited Baghdad security crackdown.

Medical devices maker Smith & Nephew today confirmed it had held merger talks with an American rival.

THE astronaut watched by a spellbound world earlier this year carrying out a critical panel-beating repair job on the US space shuttle Discovery flies into Limerick this weekend on a less hazardous mission.

WHILE Pope John Paul held many cherished memories of his visit to Limerick in 1979, workers in a city factory yesterday recalled how the Holy Father thanked their skills some years later for helping him maintain his hectic travel schedule.