Exciting, up and coming Clare-based producers such as Chapel Gate Irish Whiskey Co, Inagh Farmhouse Cheese and Wilde Irish Chocolates will join producers from all over Ireland at the Local Enterprise Office (LEO) ‘Meet the Buyer’ event taking place on ‘The Street’ at Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) on Thursday, 23 May 2019.

It was celebrations all round in Shannon last week when Shannon-based Advanced Technical Concepts (ATC) was awarded the All-Ireland Business Foundation’s Best Medium Business Award 2019 at the Foundation’s annual All-Ireland Business Summit in Croke Park. The company’s win was based on a detailed submission and live judging on the day.

A company whose operations are spread over a 14-acre site in Shannon attributes much of its operational success to the introduction of Kaizen, a methodology focused on continuous improvement, in 1996.

There was joy for the Banner County in Croke Park when local businesses were honoured with a coveted All-Ireland Business Award.

A huge fundraising drive by Beckman Coulter’s 400 staff at O’Callaghan’s Mills, Co Clare, has netted more than €9,000 for two important charities.

Irish-UK trade relations are to the fore of this year’s Manufacturing Solutions Ireland event, as the manufacturing supply chain roadshow and conference, hosted by GTMA* and LIT, has already confirmed more than 100 exhibitors and participants from both sides of the Irish Sea.

In 1980, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), a specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability, brought a delegation of Chinese officials to the Shannon Free Zone on a three-week training course.

How do you use cutting-edge camera technology to check if medicines are labelled correctly? How do you turn a roll of paper into smart medical strips that can analyse urine and see if somebody has an illness?