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Medical devices firm Boston Scientific today announced that it plans to close its plant in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, in 2010. Meanwhile, Canadian electronics firm Celestica has called a general meeting of all 380 employees at its Galway plant this evening.
Boston Scientific company said most manufacturing at the plant, which employs 120 people, would be switched to its Galway facility.
Boston Scientific employs 4,500 people in Ireland - in Galway and Clonmel. It said today it was still "strongly committed" to its operations here.
It said the closure of the Letterkenny plant followed a review of the company's operations in Ireland.
According to its parent company, Celestica's Galway, Ireland facility specializes in high-volume manufacturing and assembly on high-precision automated lines. The Galway facility is a key provider of the company’s Automated Manufacturing Services offering.
The site has strong technical capabilities in the areas of automation, plastics, vision systems, ultrasonic welding, traceability systems and PCL (Programmable Logic Conroller) programming.
The highly skilled team is experienced in designing, installing, commissioning, operating and optimizing automated manufacturing lines on behalf of their customers across a wide range of industries.
Celestica's Galway team has particular expertise in the integration of plastics, metals and electronics for such products as medical devices and printer consumables.
Recently, the company reduced working hours due to the current economic downturn.
Celestica was the main contractor for Hewlett Packard in Ireland before that company said it was shifting manufacturing operations to Asia due to high labour costs.
Celestica employs 43,000 people worldwide with 30 manufacturing and design bases.
