Photo by OnePlastics Group OnePlastics' Protech Performance site in Shanghai and Cork, Ireland, are seeing a $9m (€8.7m) expansion project
OnePlastics Group is set to create 25 jobs as part of a multi-million investment in manufacturing facilities at its factories in Ireland and China.
The firm has expanded its production capabilities at two sites of its Protech business with an investment of more than ￡6m (€7.72m).
Donagh Murphy, the firm’s director of operations for Ireland and China, said the multi-million pound investment in Protech represented an exciting phase in the future growth of its businesses.
He said: “OnePlastics Group are driven by becoming a world-class leader in all of the businesses within the portfolio and create revolutionary products in the sectors we operate in.
“Our aim is to provide our clients with the most innovative plastic products possible along with the manufacturing capabilities to service demand.
“We are building the Protech business for future growth and this investment in Cork and Shanghai is a sign of our commitment to the plastics industry.”
The investment in Ireland will result in the development of a state-of-the-art food grade manufacturing facility with new machinery and automation tools at the site of Protech Performance Plastics in Little Island, Cork.
It will allow the company to produce innovative packaging products to support the growing Irish food industry to develop world-class production technologies and automation.
Protech currently supplies leading-edge containers to a range of customers and designs and manufactures specialist plastic components for multinational firms in the nutrition, pharmaceutical and data storage sectors.
This expansion will result in the number of people employed by Protech increasing from 100 to 125 over the next two years.
The second investment will be at Protech Plastics China in Shanghai.
The facility supplies engineering products to the high tech computer industry. It also provides high volume assembly and complete supply chain management to its multinational clients.
Protech’s facility at Cork also hosts the OnePlastics Group’s dedicated Innovation Centre of Excellence which was established in 2015 to foster innovation and new product development across the OnePlastics Group
The six businesses that comprise OnePlastics Group include Straight Ltd, MGB Plastics, AAC Plastics and Protech Performance Containers in the UK. Protech Performance Plastics in Ireland and Protech Plastics China in Shanghai complete the portfolio. It has also created a design office in Boston, USA.
OnePlastics Group is owned by One51plc, based in Ireland. It operates a portfolio of businesses in specialised sectors including environmental services, renewable energy and injection moulding.
