Martin Tedham, chief executive officer at The Wasdell Group said, “With our new facility, we are not only increasing our packaging and analytical testing capacity to better service new and future customers, but with Brexit on the horizon, we are ensuring challenges and costs are minimised by preparing for every eventuality.
 
The Dundalk facility is the latest phase in Wasell’s investment plan to increase capability and capacity and follows the announcement of its new £500K microbological and analytical laboratory at its Newcastle, UK, site. The company’s ongoing expansion plan will benefit over 120 of the its current customers.
 
Building work on the site, which is expected to fully operational by spring 2019, began in August 2018. The new facility is expected to create around 800 job ranging from senior management to roles across operations, quality, technical, commercial, financial, warehousing, laboratory and production.