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Regeneron site at Raheen, Co Limerick.
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egeneron Pharmaceuticals is one of the fastest-growing companies in the global
biotechnology industry, and its Irish operations are keeping pace. Since 2013, when Regeneron first
announced plans to invest in operations in Ireland, the company has consistently exceeded job and investment projections for its Irish operations. Regeneron’s 400,000 sq ft, state-of-the-art production facility in Limerick is the largest scale bulk biologics production facility in Ireland and one of the largest biologic production operations in the world, producing life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. Their latest jobs announcement in October
2017 brought the total expected employment at the Limerick-based facility to 800 people and total investment
in Ireland to
$750 million. With numbers employed in Limerick set to grow to 800 by the end of 2018, Ivor Downey, Director of Human Resources assures me, when we speak in late
“Gut feel is a large portion of any site
years ago, we simply felt good about the community,
say I know Limerick is a place where you can build and thrive as a biotech.”
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years and a lot of experience later, I can now confidently
universities and people. A few
selection. When we picked Limerick
May 2018 that, “We’re well along our path to achieving it at this stage.” What then, is the magic formula that has enabled this impressive growth curve? Dan Van Plew, Executive Vice President and General Manager of
Industrial
Operations and Product Supply (IOPS) at Regeneron, was on site for the jobs announcement last October and at the time revealed: “Gut feel is a large portion of any site selection. When we picked Limerick years ago, we simply felt good about the community, universities and people. A few years and a lot of experience later, I can now confidently say I know Limerick is a place where you can build and thrive as a biotech. We are proud of what has happened here and the vast majority of this work has been completed by people who come from Munster. These folks built, validated and began production in a way I’d put up against any other team on the planet. We feel at home here and the way we have been welcomed has made our ongoing
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