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E-mail this to a friendThe investment at its Global Manufacturing Centre on Deeside Industrial Estate will create 67 new jobs and safeguard a further sixteen. The Centre specialises in the manufacture of wound care and ostomy products that are exported globally.
Backed by a comprehensive support package from the Welsh Government, including business finance and training support, the two pronged investment will bring a new product manufacturing line for their innovative Aquacel Foam dressings range to Wales.
This is currently produced in the US by external contractors and Wales was competing with ten other ConvaTec sites around the world for the project.
The second project will establish a new shared services centre at Deeside providing accounting and finance support to the ConvaTec network.
Economy Minister Edwina Hart said:
” I am delighted Welsh Government support helped secure these two very important projects for Wales that will create a wide range of skilled' well paid jobs.
“The investment will strengthen ConvaTec’s presence in Wales and provide a further boost for our expanding life science priority sector. ConvaTec operates in the niche wound healing sub sector where Wales has a particular strength and is the largest and most important company working in this area in Wales.”
ConvaTec has an R&D operation on Deeside and a further manufacturing plant in Rhymney.
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