MidWest for Manufacturing

What makes Ireland great, makes Ireland great for business Date 03/2014 City to: Limerick Infrastructure Shannon 20mins for 1hr 45mins Air Manufacturing www.shannonairport.com 1hr (20 minutes from Limerick) Originally founded by the Vikings in 812 AD, Limerick has grown Ireland’s second international airport 1hr 30mins to become the main cultural and economic centre for the Mid- 3 flights per day to London Heathrow West of Ireland. It is Ireland’s third largest city. Limerick was Daily flights to New York (JFK & Newark) European City of Sport 2011 and is the spiritual home of - Shannon and Dublin are the only airports in Europe with Munster and, indeed, Irish Rugby. full customs pre-clearance for passengers to the US - Shannon is the only airport in the world which provides - Ireland’s Mid-West region consists of Counties Clare, full pre-clearance for private jets travelling to the US Limerick and North Tipperary - IDA Ireland’s focus in the region is on the Limerick/ www.dublinairport.com Shannon gateway, in line with the National Spatial Strategy (2hrs from Limerick) - Grant aid of up to 10% for large companies and up to Scheduled International flights 20% for SMEs is available in Limerick Irelands principal International Airport - Multinational companies operating in Limerick/Shannon Handled 20.17 million passengers in 2013, include Dell, Analog Devices , Cook Medical, Vistakon, Intel 175 routes with 57 airlines for the year 2013 and Zimmer Full customs pre-clearance for passengers to the US - Vistakon: most capital intensive Med Tech facility in Ireland - Limerick has two 3rd level institutions – University of Cork Airport www.corkairport.com Limerick (UL) and Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) – (90 minutes from Limerick) with a total of 17,437 students and over 5,300 graduates An average of 2.4 million Passengers annually, per annum Over 40 destinations across the UK and Europe Dublin - Industry relevant research: LERO, MSSI, Stokes Institute, Galway Interaction Design Centre Road - Pool of Management talent with extensive MNC experience Limerick City is connected by road/motorway infrastructure - Limerick/Galway Corridor has critical mass of 1m+ people to three major cities: - Highly attractive, competitively priced property solutions Dublin (1 ¾ hours) – Limerick - Very good quality of life Cork (1 ½ hours) – N20/M20 Motorway Galway (1 hour) – N18/ Population Sea - Deep sea port at Foynes in the Shannon Estuary, 14 Mid-West Region 379,327 Cork miles east of Limerick city, caters for vessels of up to (Clare, Limerick & North Tipperary) 60,000 dwt Limerick County 191,809 - It caters for all key cargo classifications and with a Limerick City & Environs 91,454 substantial land bank and large storage facilities. CSO Figures Census 2011 2 Recent Vistakon Ireland (US) January 2013 Announcements Vistakon Ireland plans to invest over €100 million in the expansion of its manufacturing operations and create 100 new highly skilled Regeneron Pharmaceuticals jobs at its site in the National Technology Park, Plassey, Limerick. December 2013 Vistakon Ireland, was established in Limerick in 1996 The Regeneron announced it plans to establish a World-Class company designs, manufactures and markets the ACUVUE® Biopharmaceutical Production Facility in Limerick. Regeneron range of soft disposable contact lenses, the world’s number one Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) is to apply for planning brand. It is one of several Johnson & Johnson companies Limerick has long been a permission to establish a state-of-the art, biopharmaceutical operating in Ireland, employing a total of 1,900 people. www.vistakonpharmaceutical.com strategic part of our global production facility. The company expects to employ up to 300 people by the end of 2016, including scientists, engineers, technicians and operations. This new investment administrative personnel. ON Semiconductor (US) www.regeneron.com November 2011 (€50 million R&D programme) U.S. Company ON Semiconductor announced that it plans to demonstrates how well regarded Cook Ireland (US) invest approximately €13 million to expand its Design Centre the Irish team is internationally November 2013 in Limerick, thus enhancing its R&D capability in power Cook Medical officially opened its new state-of-the-art research and efficient solutions for use in computing and consumer and will help to further strengthen development (R&D) Innovation Centre at its plant in Limerick, Ireland. applications. The investment is expected to generate 69 new the strategic nature of the Irish The Innovation Centre together, with the expansion of cleanrooms, jobs. ON Semi is a premier supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics. The new jobs operations in our evolving R&D packaging, storage and other facilities, represents an investment of €10million. Cook Medical’s Limerick site currently develops are high value engineering roles and are expected to come network. peripheral vascular, gastroenterology and urology devices for global on stream within the next four years. distribution. Equipped with the latest technology to recreate and www.onsemi.com simulate clinical conditions, it will enable improved device testing and better product design outcomes. Analog (US) Jerald G. Fishman, www.cookmedical.com July 2011 Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a global leader in high-performance President and CEO, semiconductors for signal processing applications, Analog Devices WorldwideTechServices (US) March 2013 announced that it will embark on a €50 million R&D Worldwide TechServices (WWTS), a leading Global provider of investment programme at its campus in Raheen, Co. information technology solutions, is to establish a European Limerick. The programme focuses on the expansion of ADI’s Headquarters in Limerick with the creation of 62 new high quality existing R&D capability in Limerick and, over the next five jobs. WWTS provides custom infrastructure and managed service years, will result in the creation of 100 high-skilled jobs, such solutions for a variety of technologies and customers in the IT market as positions in integrated circuit design and applications 2 across 82 countries today. The Solution centre in Limerick will engineering. A 140,000 ft R&D centre, including specialized support Operations and Sales activities across EMEA. laboratory space, will be constructed. www.wwts.com www.analog.com

3 FDI Client Base Vistakon (US) Cook Medical (US) Vistakon, a division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. Cook Ireland was established in Limerick in 1996 as a established in Limerick in 1995, manufactures the ACUVUE® production and distribution centre and quickly developed Brand of disposable contact lenses. Today, after four phases of to encompass the R&D and manufacturing of urology expansion, the company employs over 1,200 people in a highly and gastroenterology products. In 2004 the Cook automated facility making a wide range of disposable contact lens Ireland plant expanded to create a European Shared products for global markets. The Limerick plant is the most capital Service Centre while in 2009 it was chosen as the global intensive Medical Technology facility in Ireland, with 90% of the manufacturing base for a first of its kind drug-eluting workforce having technical qualifications including one-third at stent technology, Zilver® PTX®, used to treat Peripheral Diploma or Degree level. Arterial Disease (PAD). R&D facilities have continued to www.vistakonpharmaceutical.com grow to include Peripheral Intervention devices and today 10% of Cook Ireland’s sales come from products designed in Limerick. Total employment in Limerick now Lufthansa Technik (GR) exceeds 500 people. Lufthansa Technik’s Shannon (LTTS) facility employs over 200 www.cookmedical.com people in the repair of components for both high and low-pressure turbines for CFMI and GE engines. LTTS is licensed by General Electric and CFMI (Original Equipment Manufacturers of aircraft engines) to carry out repairs in accordance with their engine shop manuals, making it unique as one of a small number of companies outside of the OEM Engine manufacturers who are licensed to carry out repairs. www.lufthansa-technik.com Kostal (GR) Kostal, a major German automotive component supplier, established its first Irish plant near Limerick in 1981. Since then the Abbeyfeale operation has developed as the European centre of excellence for the manufacture of electronic control units. This facility currently employs over 530 people. In 2011, the plant commenced production of Photovoltaic Inverters for the solar industry. www.kostal.com

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Stryker Orthopaedics Limerick (US) Intel (US) Stryker Orthopaedics Limerick (SOL), acquired from Pfizer in Intel in Shannon is a key European R&D site for Intel’s The investments in Ireland are 1998, currently employs over 630 people manufacturing Embedded Business. Dedicated to the design and central to our broader strategy orthopaedic implants. Limerick is an integrated facility with development of advanced software and silicon technology, the site supports Intel’s Intelligent System’s of establishing leadership in traditional process development, manufacturing and distribution. Manufacturing processes in Limerick include casting, machining, Group (ISG) and Communications & Storage cloud computing and our packaging and high technology processes such as the Infrastructure Group (CSIG). The Shannon Business commitment to help customers manufacture of simplex bone cement. Stryker is continually Centre assists Intel’s Embedded marketplace with investing in the facility, keeping it at the leading edge of strategic business direction for its European Operations innovate and drive business manufacturing excellence. and provides technical and marketing support for results. We are excited about www.stryker.com European customers and the Europe / Middle East / Africa field. All major European customers are directly these new facilities and see supported from Shannon. Headcount has grown Ireland as an ideal home for our Auginish Alumina (R) steadily, from 18 in 2000, to in excess of 240 today. 95% of the population are 3rd level qualified or higher Cloud-based activities. Aughinish, Alumina Ltd., which is part of the Russian UC Rusal Group, employs over 450 people producing alumina from raw and there is a very international feel to the organisation bauxite at its Askeaton facility. The plant, which began operation with 15 nationalities on campus. Intel Shannon has in 1983, is the biggest alumina plant in Europe, the most efficient been recognised as one of Ireland’s top 20 workplaces facility in the Group and the Irish team sets the benchmark in for the last 3 years. Jeff Clarke, www.intel.com Vice Chairman, terms of technology and process development. The company is Global Operations & End User Computing Solutions, one of the largest industrial research partners of the local Dell University of Limerick (UL) and it continues to invest significantly in collaborative research projects with the college focused on solving both production process and environmental issues. www.rusal.ru/en/aluminium

5 Educational Research & Collaborative The Stokes research Facilities Activity: Institute (SRI) www.stokes.ie LERO www.lero.ie - A multidisciplinary, multinational group of scientists The MidWest Region benefits from having two 3rd level - Founded in 2005 with funding from SFI and other sources, & engineers working in close collaboration with many institutions – University of Limerick and Limerick Institute of LERO is a national centre, based in UL industries, hospitals and government organisations Technology – with a combined enrolment of 17,437 students - Members in the partner colleges of NUIG, DCU, TCD, UCD, DkIT - Core research activities conducted in the field of and 5,300 students graduating per annum. - Lero encompasses over 30 academics, 20+Research Fellows & micro-scale mechanical engineering Postdocs and 70+ PhD students University of Limerick (UL) – www.ul.ie - Engaged in research in software engineering with a special Limerick Institute of Technology – www.lit.ie The Institute is involved in 3 distinct areas of research: emphasis on Evolving Critical Systems

Both third level Institutes have developed strong links with - ICT - Reliability physics and Microsystems for energy management industry and significant research capabilities. Competency areas include: - Aerospace – Aerodynamics and Aircraft Heat Transfer - Requirements Engineering - Biofluidics - Bio related engineering problems - Within a 90 minute catchment of Limerick, there are 3 - Formal Methods Microfluidic Cancer Diagnostics, Microfluidic Processing Universities (UL, NUIG, UCC) and 3 Institutes of Technology (LIT, - Performance Engineering & Arterioscleroses GMIT, CIT) with a student cohort of 67,530 and 20,695 - Regulated Software Engineering graduates per annum. Breakdown of the student cohort is: - Agile & Lean Software Engineering Industry collaboration: - Strong track-record of interaction with industry on Enrolment 2012 Graduates 2012 Industry Collaboration at Lero involves long term strategic reliability-related issues UL 11,766 3,901 relationships, formal industry partnerships on commercialisation - Sample partners and clients include: LIT 5,671 1,482 and licensing and industry outreach programmes. Industry Nokia Mobile Phones, Tellabs Ltd., Lucen Technologies, UCC 18,520 4,926 partners include IBM, Intel, Lumension, Vitalograph, QAD, Fineos Hewlett-Packard,Stratus Technologies & Analog Devices CIT 9,590 2,557 and Storm Technology. NUIG 15,927 5,832 GMIT 6,056 1,997 Examples of collaboration 67,530 20,695 - Collaborated with IBM on: - Architecture Recovery & Conformance UL Facts: - Aspect Oriented Development Models - Home to Ireland’s largest undergraduate Business - Parallel Processing (HPC Group) Degree programme - Smart Cities - Houses Ireland’s only on-campus live trading floor - Operates the largest Internship Programme in Europe with - Collaborated with Fidelty, Rovsing & NUIG on: 2,000 placements per annum - Global Agile InnovAtion - Runs a unique Supply Chain Management diploma programme, developed in conjunction with Infineon Technologies www.infineon.com

6 MSSI www.ul.ie/mssi Irish Centre for - Established in 1998, is one of 4 research institutes at UL MSSI Research Collaborations with industry includes: - Interdisciplinary Institute with members from Composite Materials Engineering, Physics, Chemistry and Materials (IComp) @ MSSI - 35 academic members and 227 researchers in Faculty of Science and Engineering - EI/IDA Competence Centre in Composite Materials - Over €30M in research funding since 2006, (plus €21M - Linking industry to academia in large capital grants) - €5M over five years - Industry collaborative partners include: Research at MSSI - Generate state-of-the-art fundamental research on topics of industrial significance in materials and surface science - Design and Application of Materials for: - Energy: nanomaterials, fuels & alloys, ceramic/glass materials - Transport: composite materials, alloys - Health: solid state pharmaceutical materials, biomedical engineering, biomaterials, sensors and biochemical materials - Clean Technology: biocatalysis, adsorption and catalysis Charles Parsons Initiative www.ul.ie/cpi/ Pharmaceutical Materials @ MSSI Science Foundation Ireland Strategic Research Cluster in Solid State Pharmaceutical Materials The Charles Parsons Initiative (CPI) in UL was established in 2006 to consolidate the work and expertise of several UL-based research centres focussed on sustainable forms of energy.

Today CPI is focussed on 3 Thematic Research Areas: - Chemical Technologies for Biomass and Biofuels - Energy Storage and Generation - Evaluation and Support of Energy Systems

CPI has collaborative links with NUIG, Trondheim (Norweigan University of Science & Technology), UCD, US National Institute of Standards & Technology, Fiat and Johnson-Matthey - Based at MSSI in UL there are 5 universities and 10 companies active in the group - Rational design of solid-state pharmaceutical materials 7 Real Estate

Buildings 2/3 Beechpark High Bay Building, Instore Building, Smithstown Business Park, Annacotty Business Park, Shannon Limerick Limerick

Buildings 2/3 Beechpark, High Bay Building, Instore Building, Smithstown, Shannon Annacotty Business Park, Limerick Annacotty Business Park, Limerick - 40,000 ft²/3,716 m² factory facility - 45,000 ft²/ 4,182 m² modern high bay warehouse/ - 23,000 ft²/2,137m² warehouse/office facility - 15,000 ft²/1,393 m² sq ft of Office accommodation industrial facility - Strategically located approximately 10km northeast of - Generous dedicated yard area - 12m (40ft) eaves and an apex of 14.3m Limerick City Centre, adjacent to N7 (Southern Ring Road), - Extensive car parking - Racking to roof level fitted throughout N20 and N21 main Cork Kerry routes - The property adjoins the East Park FreeZone - Heating system, alarm and a rapid roll door - Modern Warehouse (c. 20,000 ft²/1,858m²) - Strategically located within 2kms of Shannon Airport - 24 hour on-site security - 3 loading bays, 2 dock levellers, extensive racking available - 15 minutes from Limerick City - Strategically located approximately 10km northeast of - Office accommodation (c.3,500 ft²/325 m²) fitted out to a Limerick City Centre, adjacent to N7 (Southern Ring Road), high standard N20 and N21 main Cork Kerry routes - 24 hour on-site security

8 There is a massive buzz and a great MidWest, social scene here in Limerick. My rugby Lifestyle , friends in Cork and Dublin think Limerick is Limerick, which is Ireland’s third city, is the capital of the Mid-West brilliant; there are so many students and region with an urban population of 100,000 and is noted for its shop- A Natural young people. ping, its dining and entertainment, its historical significance, as well A Natural as its contributions to the arts. Conquered by the Vikings in the ninth Playground You look at Limerick the weekend of a century, this bustling modern city has a rich medieval past, which Playground Munster game, you could nearly take a resounds around its ancient streets. holiday here in the middle of winter from a Friday to a Sunday evening, it is just an Culture & Entertainment incredible weekend. - Limerick has been named City of Culture 2014 - Home to the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Daghdha Dance Paul O’Connell, Company, the World Music Centre, and Lyric FM Munster Rugby and Lions Star - Theatre & entertainment venues include University of Limerick Concert Hall and Dolan’s Warehouse Contact IDA Ireland - Hosts many music festivals & concerts - Shannon International Music Festival, the Jazz Festival and traditional Irish Music IDA Ireland is Ireland’s inward investment promotion agency. The agency works with international companies to secure new investments and collaborates with existing Sport international investors in Ireland to help expand and - Limerick is the 2011 European City of Sport Contactdevelop their IDA businesses. Ireland - Limerick’s love of rugby is world renowned and it is home to the iconic Thomond Park Stadium and Munster Team - Ireland’s National Sports Arena, complete with running track, IDATo learn Ireland more, is Ireland’s log onto inwardwww.idaireland.com investment promotion or contact Olympic size swimming pool and world class fitness centre, is agency.any IDA IrelandThe agency Office. works with international located on the University of Limerick campus companies to secure new investment and - The Atlantic coast, a short journey from Limerick City, provides a collaboratesConor Agnew with existing international investors in dramatic backdrop for many activities including hill-walking, IrelandRegional to Manager help expand and develop their businesses. Mid-West Region mountain biking, scuba diving, sailing, horse riding and surfing To learn more, log on to www.idaireland.com orIDA contact Ireland any IDA Ireland office. World renowned Rowelawn House IDANational Ireland, Technology Head Office. Park WiltonLimerick Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. Tourist Attractions Ireland - The Burren, one of Ireland’s National Parks, is one of the largest karst landscapes in Europe measuring approximately 250 km2 Tel: +353 1 603 4000 - The Cliffs of Moher is one of Ireland’s top Visitor attractions and Fax:Tel: +353 +353 (0)61 1 603 20 4040 0513 is a designated UNESCO Geo Park. The Cliffs are 214m high Email: [email protected]@ida.ie at the highest point and range for 8km over the Atlantic Web: www.idaireland.com Ocean on the western seaboard of County Clare 9 Whilst every care has been taken by IDA Ireland to ensure the accuracy of this publication, no liability is accepted for errors or omissions.