Ireland’s Industrial Development Authority has won Brother Industries Inc of Japan – which is already in Wales – for a manufacturing plant in Drogheda, County Louth, to make electronic assemblies and components for matrix printers, electronic typewriters and microwave ovens made at its plant in Wrexham: the investment is set at $9.6m, with the IDA putting up some of the money, and the partners hope that 388 new jobs will be created over three years; occupation is planned for October, and the plant should be employing 200 people by the end of the first year.
