Job boost for Clare
Beckman Coulter, a US bio-medical firm has announced that it will be creating an additional 105 staff at its plant in Clare. The plant currently employs 315 people.
Plans lodged with Clare Co Council confirm that the company is seeking to increase the capacity of its current operations of manufacturing reagent kits and introduce the production of a new product on site – strips for testing urine samples.
The total annual salary spend at the plant is currently €17 million generating an average salary of €54,000 which the company states “is well above the average for the scientific and technical service sectors”.
The firm’s total export revenues is about €200 million per annum and it spends €14 million per annum on materials and services in Ireland.
