Galway Bay fm newsroom - Cambus Medical/Freudenberg Medical has begun recruitment for a new team of over 40 staff as it expands its facility in An Spidéal.
It's part of a €1.9 million expansion which will more than double its manufacturing footprint at its Gaeltacht base.
Construction has now gotten underway with the build scheduled to reach completion before year end.
The 40 new positions will be in the areas of engineering, quality, manufacturing, customer operations and administration.
Cambus Medical, a Freudenberg Medical joint venture partner provides precision hypotubes, specialty needles and metal micro-component solutions to the medical device industry.
The company was established by Barry Comerford and John Farragher in 2006 and has grown its customer base significantly in Ireland and overseas since then.
Funding for the expansion was approved by the board of Údarás na Gaeltachta as part of the Government’s COVID-19 Jobs Stimulus Package.