150 new medical-device jobs for Bray

Healthcare technology company Nypro is to create 150 jobs at its re-developed manufacturing facility in Bray, Co Wicklow.

Nypro is set to produce a needle-free drug delivery device for a US pharmaceutical company for late 2008. The contract has already created 25 new jobs.

Nypro sais that today's news represented a $10m (€7.4m) investment in Ireland.

Nypro Ireland's customers include Schering Plough, Bausch and Lomb, Boston Scientific, Unilever, Procter and Gamble, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.