Biopharmaceutical investment to create 200 jobs

AROUND 200 jobs are to be created in a planned €400 million investment in a new biopharmaceutical plant in Co Cork.

Eli Lilly has announced that it is to construct the plant adjacent to its existing factory at Dunderrow near Kinsale, where it currently employs 400 people.

The new plant will produce medicines to treat cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. The proposed 200 jobs will be created over a five-year period.