{"id":359257,"date":"2026-03-22T11:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359257\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:59:12","slug":"this-is-not-a-factory-its-a-liquid-innovation-platform-tech-entrepreneur-saves-shuttered-lurgan-water-bottling-plant-after-e5m-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359257\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is not a factory, it&#8217;s a liquid innovation platform\u2019 \u2013 Tech entrepreneur saves shuttered Lurgan water bottling plant after \u20ac5m injection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Neil Sands has reopened the former Classic Mineral Water under the name Cl\u00edr Water, producing spring water products, and hopes to create 60 new jobs\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Developing new, innovative drink products will be crucial for the business. Above, Cl\u00edr Water founder Neil Sands. Photo: Andrew Watchorn Photography\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b8bf8ef7-4679-42ae-a025-0542ed65f7b1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Developing new, innovative drink products will be crucial for the business. Above, Cl\u00edr Water founder Neil Sands. Photo: Andrew Watchorn Photography<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A shuttered water bottling plant has been saved after a multi-million-euro investment led by an Irish tech entrepreneur, paving the way for up to 60 new jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The former Classic Mineral Water plant in Lurgan, Co Armagh, closed nearly two years ago after a contamination in its water supply was discovered, forcing the firm into insolvency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil Sands has reopened the former Classic Mineral Water under the name Cl\u00edr Water, producing spring water products,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,5913],"class_list":["post-359257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sean-pollock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}