{"id":405251,"date":"2026-04-18T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405251\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:38:16","slug":"us-firm-to-acquire-westmeath-fire-protection-company-writech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405251\/","title":{"rendered":"US Firm To Acquire Westmeath Fire Protection Company Writech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 17 April 2026 15:31\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e243fe3d90e.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The company based in Mullingar employs over 800 people.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A Westmeath based fire protection company is being acquired by the US&#8217;s APi Group.<\/p>\n<p>Writech, the founding office of Wtech Fire Group is headquarted in Mullingar and employs over 800 people, serving across sectors from data centres to renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>While APi also operates in fire and life safety, security, elevator and escalator, and specialty services with over 500 locations worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year subject to required regulatory approvals.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 17 April 2026 15:31 The company based in Mullingar employs over 800 people. A Westmeath based fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3279,319,72,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-405251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-irish-news","14":"tag-laois","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-local-radio","17":"tag-midlands","18":"tag-midlands-103","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-offaly","21":"tag-radio","22":"tag-westmeath"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405251","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=405251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}