400 new jobs are on their way to Limerick following the announcement by pharmaceutical company Regeneron that it is expanding its operations there.
The additional roles will bring to more than 1,400 the numbers employed at the Industrial Operations and Product Supply (IOPS) facility in Raheen.
The expansion is a result of a decision to prepare Regeneron's plant in New York to produce a potential new antibody based treatment for Covid-19, REGN-COV2. "As this pandemic hit, we needed to quickly change how we do things and where we make our products," said Dan Van Plew, Executive Vice-President and General Manager of IOPS at Regeneron. "In order to make space in our New York facilities to accommodate our Covid-19 efforts, we needed to