Amgen ‘will never build’ €820m factory at Cork site

One of the world’s leading biotechnology companies has said it has no intention of resuscitating a €820m plan to create a 1,100-job factory in Co Cork.

In Jan 2009, Amgen decided to ‘indefinitely postpone’ building a bulk manufacturing facility in Carrigtwohill. But in a letter to a county councillor, it has now stated it has no plans to ever locate a factory there.

Cllr Noel Collins (Ind), who lives in nearby Midleton, said he wrote to the company late last year enquiring about the possibility that it might reactivate the project.