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Hardware Manufacturing

Over $6.24billion from the U.S. of direct investment into Ireland at the end of 1989 accounted for nearly half of all foreign investment. Most U.S. investments are in the chemical, metalworking, and engineering industries and in other technologically advanced and export-oriented sectors. There are approximately 340 U.S. companies in Ireland which are primarily manufacturing for export to the European market.

Source: Irish Trade Web ²²

Major Players in the Irish Market:

IBM:

A major facility on the IBM new campus at Mulhuddart, Dublin West is the Server Fulfillment Center, where the last part of the manufacturing process of servers will be completed. The Irish facility will be responsible for configuring large mainframe servers called System/390, and mid-range servers called AS/400, before shipping them to customers in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Storage Systems Division (SSD) building has been occupied since March, 1998. SSD began product qualification in May and started Thin Film Disk production in September, 1998. On 23 October, 1998, the plant, which manufactures hard disk platters was dedicated. The manufacturing operations for SSD will continue to grow through the rest of this year and are expected to reach full capacity in early 2000. When fully operational, SSD will employee approximately 700 employees. IBM employs a total of 4,000 workers in the country.

Source: IBM.IE ^25.

Dell Products Europe BV:

This American computer manufacturing firm fabricates laptop, notebooks, and desktop personal computers in Ireland. The firm is reported to employ 3,200 workers in Ireland.

Source: www.Kompass.ie ²⁶

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Last update: December 17, 1999 by ED/MM.