Nypro Establishes New Facility in Ireland

Nypro Inc., which was recently purchased by Jabil Circuit Inc., is establishing a $78.8 million facility in Waterford, Ireland. The site will manufacture respiratory and injection devices for healthcare customers, and is expected to begin production in April 2014. The company hopes to create 200 new jobs in the area.

Nypro also has a facility in Bray, Ireland, which supplies final packaging and assembly of drugs into medical devices. This location is set to create 100 new jobs in the next 18 monhts, expanding its workforce to 460 employees.

“We have a great relationship with the Waterford Institute of Technology, which will support us with technicians and engineers,” Nypro Vice Pesident Chris Nother told Plastics and Rubber Weekly. “Foras Áiseanna Saothair the Irish Training Alliance can provide us with general employees.”

Ken McClannon, director of programs and engineering for Nypro Healthcare Europe, said that Nypro would install rainwater harvesting and solar panels in the new facility. The company has worked with Sustainable Energy Ireland in order to develop more energy efficient cleanrooms, resulting in a reported 20 percent savings in energy.

“Jabil is bringing its healthcare divisions in under the Nypro brand and management, creating one the largest healthcare manufacturing and development companies in the world,” added Nother. “Nypro’s healthcare business is worth €308 million and Jabil’s is €769 million.”

Those numbers translate to $404 million and approximately $1 billion, respectively.

Nother also said that the Jabil buy was a bonus to Nypro as it would be able to integrate Jabil’s optics and electronics technology where previously the company had to outsource those operations.

Jabil makes electronic components for devices used in health care, clean technology and other industries, and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Fla. Nypro makes plastic parts for many of the same products. The two companies have done business for 15 to 17 years, and also competed in some areas. In the 1990s, Jabil sold two plastic molding factories in China to Nypro.