Tagged: Manufacturing
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Cork student wins top engineering prize for orthopaedic innovation News
11.06.2013 Patrick Byrnes, a student at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), has scooped the top prize in the student engineer of the year awards run by Engineers Ireland. He won for his... -
70 jobs for Kells with establishment of Mafic’s basalt fibre production facility News
27.05.2013 Through a multi-million euro investment, Mafic’s new facility in Kells Business Park, Co Meath, is set to be a centre of excellence and production headquarters for the Mafic...Categories: Recruitment, Careers and Employment -
Europe must grow its manufacturing sector to stay competitive - study News
20.05.2013 Europe must increase the size of its manufacturing sector and lead in energy efficiency, technology innovation and addressing the changing consumption patterns of consumers if... -
Irish firms head to Poland and Czech Republic for EI trade mission News
13.05.2013 Irish companies have today embarked on a four-day Enterprise Ireland trade mission in order to increase their exports to Poland and the Czech Republic. -
Scientists pioneer graphene sensor to potentially improve air quality testing News
07.05.2013 Researchers at the Irish nanoscience institute CRANN have manufactured a new graphene-based sensor they believe could have future commercial applications in air quality control... -
Interview with Intel’s first Irish female vice-president (videos) News
02.05.2013 We talk to Intel’s first Irish female vice-president, Ann Kelleher. Appointed vice-president in 2011, Kelleher is responsible for Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group and...Categories: Software, Leadership & Management, Hardware, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Development, Design, Computers -
Creating a wind-turbine manufacturing hub in the midlands News
30.04.2013 Renewable energy entrepreneur Eddie O’Connor, founder and CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power, talks about the scope to create a supply chain manufacturing hub for the wind-energy... -
Intel’s first Irish female VP helps engineer the future News
30.04.2013 Picture the scene: it is the mid-1980s at University College Cork (UCC) and a lecture hall fills with engineering students. Initially, nothing looks out of the ordinary except...Categories: Leadership & Management, Investments, Engineering, Education, Economy, Careers and Employment -
Goal to attract wind-energy players to set up €7bn supply chain in Ireland’s midlands News
30.04.2013 Manufacturers of wind-turbine components and transmission technology are meeting today in Tullamore, Co Offaly, to discuss the potential of setting up a local supply chain in... -
Rumours of the demise of manufacturing greatly exaggerated News
23.04.2013 At the height of Ireland’s feet-of-clay economic boom, a thought pervaded official circles in Ireland – manufacturing no longer matters to the economy. Indeed, there was plenty... -
Ireland plans to create 20,000 new manufacturing jobs by 2016 News
22.04.2013 The Irish Government has published plans devised by Forfás and the Expert Group on Future Skills to create 20,000 new manufacturing jobs by 2016. -
TCD scientists claim breakthrough in testing the safety of nanomaterials News
11.04.2013 A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin (TCD), including some from the nanoscience institute CRANN, is claiming to have come up with a new screening approach to test... -
Glen Dimplex to create 37 manufacturing jobs in Portadown News
10.04.2013 Developer of electrical heating products Glen Dimplex is making another investment in research and development and is to create 37 manufacturing jobs in Portadown, Northern... -
US Department of Energy hones in on energy-efficient manufacturing News
29.03.2013 The US Department of Energy has this week launched a new drive aimed at breathing new life into the country’s manufacturing sector. Termed Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative... -
Midlands wind energy platform could lead to €1bn spend and 6,000 new jobs News
08.03.2013 Harnessing the Irish midlands’ potential for exportable wind energy to the UK could see civil engineering and construction investments of €1bn lead to between 3,000 and 6,000...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Green Tech, Green, Government, Engineering, Energy, Economy -
Irish app firm listed as one of three finalists in SAP Innovation Challenge News
04.03.2013 SMART Visibility, a new manufacturing mobile software developed by an Irish start-up that aims to enable the factories of the future using augmented reality and GPS, is one of... -
Dyson invests stg£50m in new manufacturing facility in Singapore News
22.02.2013 UK inventor James Dyson’s company has invested stg£50m in a new digital motor manufacturing facility in Singapore. The new facility will employ 210 people and will produce 4m...