Global medtech company BD has confirmed that it plans to cut 60 jobs from its operation in Drogheda, Co Louth over the next 15 months.
There are currently 235 people employed in the Drogheda plant – one of four facilities it has in the country. In a statement, the company, which next year will mark 60 years since it opened in Drogheda, said the pandemic had contributed to the decision. “During the Covid pandemic, the world experienced extreme shifts in demand for certain products,” it said. “This affected BD in two ways – extremely high demand for products used on Covid patients and lessened demand for products that were not used when non-critical procedures were suspended to increase capacity for Covid patients.”
It added that the company was “right-sizing manufacturing operations to realign current inventory and future demand”.