US firm to create 100 jobs in Cork

One hundred jobs are to be created in Co Cork, it was announced today.

US firm ABEC is expanding its facility in Fermoy, hiring 100 new staff in the process.

FCI plant in #Fermoy closed in 2007 with loss of 240 jobs. US firm ABEC is adapting it, creating 100 new jobs #Cork pic.twitter.com/Wr0Ijb7jrS

— Eoin English (@EoinBearla) January 14, 2015

ABEC produces engineering equipment for the bio-pharma industry.

The new jobs will come on stream over the next two years.

Minister Bruton,@IDAIRELAND CEO Martin Shanahan & Brady Cole of ABEC at the press conference to announce 100 #jobs pic.twitter.com/Gjpi6JeBtK

— Government of Ireland (@GovIE) January 14, 2015