Wicklow’s loss could be Donegal’s gain as American packaging company ProAmpac announced it is reviewing its operation in the Garden County. <\/p>\n
The company, which makes flexible packaging, confirmed it has entered a formal consultation process, with production transferred to a sister site in Gaoth Dobhair.<\/p>\n
The move effects 39 workers at its Wicklow plant in Carnew.<\/p>\n
The company’s Goath Dobhair operations employs in the region of 300 jobs at its Donegal operation.<\/p>\n
It is not known yet if the move will create new jobs at the company’s current plant in West Donegal.<\/p>\n
ProAmpac has indicated redeployment opportunities may be available at its Donegal site, though local representatives in Wicklow have questioned how realistic that option is for a workforce based on the other side of the country.<\/p>\n
In a letter to customers ProAmpac Europe President Francis Minogue confirmed the company had entered a consultation process regarding the Carnew facility, including a proposal to relocate its manufacturing assets to other sites within the group.<\/p>\n
The letter states that any receiving facility would be an established ProAmpac location “with proven operational excellence, an experienced and resilient workforce and reliable capabilities.”<\/p>\n
Workers at the Wicklow plant were informed of the company’s plans this week and have now entered a 30-day formal consultation period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wicklow’s loss could be Donegal’s gain as American packaging company ProAmpac announced it is reviewing its operation in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-561253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561253","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=561253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}