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Things you are surprised are still manufactured in Ireland

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  • #62
    VeVeX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭VeVeX


    XR3i wrote: »
    I LOVE IRELAND

    I love Leann Follain (manufactured in Carlow)


  • #63
    Mourinho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭Mourinho


    Isaiah wrote: »
    Computer chips/semiconductors/processors. We have a few fabs in Ireland the largest being Intel's in Leixlip, which is the largest in the EMEA regions. There is aalso a new 'superfab' planned for the Leixlip site.

    Also spice burgers.

    Accidentally read it as "septic burgers" eww :pac:


  • #64
    Isaiah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 300 ✭✭Isaiah


    Mourinho wrote: »
    Accidentally read it as "septic burgers" eww :pac:

    I know a few chippers that do septic burgers in fairness.


  • #65
    Oops!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭Oops!


    www.combilift.com The pride of Monaghan...


  • #66
    jimmycrackcorm
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    Armoured personnel carrier designs and comedians, both in Navan of all places.


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  • #67
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,252 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Stents to replace valves around the heart.

    Stents are used to widen arteries not valves.

    If its the latter I'm in trouble as I was told I got a mechanical valve a few weeks ago. :)


  • #68
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,252 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    jimmycrackcorm wrote: »
    Armoured personnel carrier designs and comedians, both in Navan of all places.

    Do you call tommy a comedian? I blame the Late Late.


  • #69
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    In Letterkenny, Kirchoff makes car parts for BMW, ford, volkwagen. And Medisize make Respiratory products for hospitals


  • #70
    XR3i
    Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    GUINNESS FARTS


  • #71
    tomtucker81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 422 ✭✭tomtucker81


    Attack that attic with a Staighre, the folding attic stairs.
    How many people's lives have been made better with this Irish enterprise.

    Also the amoured personnel carrier, designed by Timony Technologies , formerly of Trim. Dunno if they are still there or even in the country.

    Edit- they are, in navan!


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  • #72
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    XR3i wrote: »
    ireland isn't the only country with bogs

    The only one obsessed with digging them up though!


  • #73
    Corpus Twisty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭Corpus Twisty


    Printer ink cartridges, by HP in Celbridge - thousands of reefer units for trucks, that are exported worldwide, by Thermoking - an Irish company manufactures hundreds of thousands of hydraulic rams that are exported worldwide - Forklifts, by Combilift - the list of stuff made and exported out of Ireland is big. We punch well above our weight.


  • #74
    djflawless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭djflawless


    Salami/pepporoni/chorizo-all destined for worldwide use
    Used to be a Tretorn factory in Portlaoise (tennis balls)
    Great country for Alcohol too...legal and naughty kinds ;)


  • #75
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,693 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Baby formula - second biggest supplier to China in the world.


  • #76
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Both my children were manufactured in Ireland.


  • #77
    Gexpro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭Gexpro


    Valeo Vision Systems in Tuam
    We design and manufacture front, top, rear and side view Automotive cameras and associated ECUs for a variety of OEM manufacturers such as BMW, Jaguar/Land Rover, Volvo, Ford, Nissan and VAG Group(VW, Audi).

    We use the best human competences and leading edge technologies to offer innovative products to our customers.
    ◾360° Birds eye view, allowing precise manoeuvres due to a seamless 360° view of the vehicle's immediate surroundings
    ◾Junction view, which improves safety in cross traffic situations with limited visibility
    ◾Trailer assistant, provides valuable assistance in hitching trailers
    ◾Park4U + 360Vue, combines ultrasonics and vision systems to automatically park your car into the parking slot.
    ◾Cross Traffic Alert, uses a very wide angle camera mounted on the front/rear of the vehicle to automatically detect oncoming vehicles and other road users
    ◾Pedestrian Detection, automatically detects pedestrians around the vehicle and warns the driver

    Who'd have thought it?


  • #78
    recyclebin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,578 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    Snow ploughs are made in Birr, Co. Offaly.


  • #79
    [Deleted User]
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    It just shows you how a certain narrative can become dominant in the media i.e that the minim wage is too hight/costs are too high in Ireland and all low tec manufacturing is moving to the far east because of this.

    Out side of the main cities there are no jobs, yet as poster have pointed out we have a very robust manufacturing industry all over Ireland, even for relatively low tec industries such as making sweets, mattresses or bit of plastic.


  • #80
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Clonmel Healthcare sells many generic drugs to a lot of the world, go into any Etos/Kruidvat in the Netherlands and pickup some Paracetamol etc and it's a product that came from there.

    Abbot is also in Clonmel and they have a a fairly large workforce (>2000)
    Key products today include:

    Multi-Link 8; a bare metal stent delivery system
    Xience Alpine; a drug eluting stent delivery system
    Xience Xpedition: a drug eluting stent delivery system
    ProStar XL: a product to facilitate secure closure of vascular access sites
    Armada 14: a peripheral dilatation catheter
    Graftmaster RX: a coronary stent graft system


  • #81
    recyclebin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,578 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    Ireland also has a big agricultural manufacturing Industry that exports all over the world. They are all Irish owned too. Here is just a few of them:

    McHale
    Abbey
    Keenan
    Hispec
    Tanco
    Conor
    Dromone
    Major


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  • #82
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    The New Bus For London (NBFL) is made by Wrightbus in Northern Ireland (if that counts)?
    http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8242/8502992905_5565721aef_b.jpg

    Back in the 1970s I seem to remember many FIAT & FORD cars driving around Dublin with big fat "Guaranteed Irish" badges on the back! > Dunno what that was about, maybe they were assembled here?


  • #83
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    LordSutch wrote: »
    The New Bus For London (NBFL) is made by Wrightbus in Northern Ireland (if that counts)?
    http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8242/8502992905_5565721aef_b.jpg

    Back in the 1970s I seem to remember many FIAT & FORD cars driving around Dublin with big fat "Guaranteed Irish" badges on the back! > Dunno what that was about, maybe they were assembled here?

    Used to be a Ford factory in Cork
    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/closure-of-cork-ford-factory-took-fitzgerald-by-surprise-1.2041535

    Also from the Motors Forum
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=73892197&postcount=8
    Brittains in Portobello/Ringsend assembled Morris.
    Buckleys in Ringsend; Hillman, Humber, Talbot & Riley
    Summerfields of Lwr. Baggot Street assembled RHD Chrysler (American model), RHD and LHD Plymouth and some DeSoto.
    McCairns on the North Wall and later Santry, assembled Vauxhall and Chevrolet.
    Caveys on Camden Street assembled Jaguar.
    O'Neills on Pleasants Street assembled Dodge.
    Nugents on Parnell Street assembled Peugeot
    Assemblers Garage on Townsend Street assembled RHD Hudson
    Ashenhurst Williams Talbot Place- Leyland/Citroen
    O'Shea's in Cork assembled Opel &Dodge
    Grange Motors in Deansgrange assembled Mercedes although I am unsure when they stopped.
    Booths Stephen Street assembled Wolseley & MG
    Brittains in Portobello/Ringsend assembled Morris
    Lincoln & Nolan on Baggot Street assembled Austin.


  • #84
    delahuntv
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    The fabric for boeing aircraft is made in Donegal.

    And the aircraft labeling (plane id) on exterior of aircraft that withstands freezing temps is made by valentia industries on valentia island in kerry!


  • #85
    peasant
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    There's a factory in county Leitrim that supplies tens of millions of actuators for car mirrors


  • #86
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    delahuntv wrote: »
    The fabric for boeing aircraft is made in Donegal.
    Curragh Carpets (in Newbridge until they closed about three years ago) made the carpet for Russian Aeroflot planes years ago.


  • #87
    delahuntv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    recyclebin wrote: »
    Snow ploughs are made in Birr, Co. Offaly.

    And ambulances in nenagh! :)


  • #88
    djflawless
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    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Curragh Carpets (in Newbridge until they closed about three years ago) made the carpet for Russian Aeroflot planes years ago.

    Oh ant Titanics carpet was made in Abbeyleix!


  • #89
    Poochie05
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    byte wrote: »
    Myself and the Mrs were down in Kerry for a few days in September and stayed in Fossa, which passes the Liebherr factory. It's a fine big factory, and didn't expect a company like Liebherr to be there!

    I'd imagine it's a big employer for Killarney and surrounding area.

    Liebherr also own the gorgeous Europe Hotel in Killarney!


  • #90
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    djflawless wrote: »
    Oh ant Titanics carpet was made in Abbeyleix!

    That turned out well


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  • #91
    [Deleted User]
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    byte wrote: »
    Myself and the Mrs were down in Kerry for a few days in September and stayed in Fossa, which passes the Liebherr factory. It's a fine big factory, and didn't expect a company like Liebherr to be there!

    I'd imagine it's a big employer for Killarney and surrounding area.

    They own the Europe hotel in Killarney too.


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