21/11/2007

Canadian Electronics Firm Creates 120 New Jobs

New employment opportunities are to be offered in the west with news of some 120 new jobs.

The posts are to be created at the Canadian owned Celestica electronic plant in Galway.

The company already employs a workforce of 320 at the Parkmore Industrial Estate, where it has been in production since 2004.

It is now expanding the plant to produce a new range of power packs for use with mobile phones and other electronic devices, including iPods and MP3 players.

The fuel cell power packs, which will provide multiple charges to portable electronic devices, will be the first of their kind on the market.

Celestica will be recruiting engineers, chemists and specialists in the fields of automation and quality control to fill the new jobs.

Minster for Enterprise & Employment, Micheál Martin, said it was yet another example of how the west of Ireland was succeeding in attracting sophisticated and leading edge jobs and investment.

(BMcC)

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