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Jobs boost for Claremorris and Castlebar By Aiden Henry A major jobs boost has been announced for Claremorris this week and there is also positive industrial news for Castlebar. A clothes recycling plant has been located in a section of the old Bacon Factory in the Claremorris. Behind the initiative is N.W. Textile Manufacturers Limited which acquired a 1,300 sq. ft. unit from Mulclare Properties, Claremorris. The firm announced that up to fifty jobs will be created in the new factory which represents a considerable boost for the South Mayo town. 20 JOBS Twenty jobs, meanwhile , are be provided by Galway City based "Data Dimension Ireland" at the Olde Town Mall in Tucker Street, Castlebar. The company is part of a worldwide group based in Seattle, Washington which employs one thousand people worldwide providing software conversions and maintenance to many of the world's leading businesses. The Castlebar employees will be working on a project called "Millennium Remediation" helping US computer firms to beat the "infotech crash" which is predicted at the end of the millennium. Six people, all computer graduates from the west Mayo area, have been in training in Galway and they are to commence work in Castlebar this week. Balla man John Costello is head of Galway based "Data Dimensions". He hopes to have 20 people working in Castlebar by the end of the year. NEW ERA Meanwhile, in Claremorris, with the CBE Software factory opening a plant at the local industrial estate on the Kiltimagh Road and the new textile manufacturing firm coming on stream, it looks like the dawning of a new era on the industrial front. The Old Bacon factory which closed in 1989 after sixty-two years in operation was purchased by Mulclare Properties. They have already built a number of industrial units on half of the ten acre site and are now making plans for a big housing development. N.W. Textile Manufacturers Ltd have started with a workforce of fifteen. They are involved in buying clothes from the principal charity organisations, and recycling them before exporting largely to the Third World Nations. Mr. James Lyons, managing director of N.W. Textile Manufacturers Limited, told the Telegraph yesterday that he was delighted at the way his new factory had taken off and was confident that it would go from strength to strength. Stated Mr. Lyons : "We are less than four weeks in operation and at present were handling 25 ton of clothes per week. Within the next six months we will install more new machinery which will further enhance our manufacturing base and should create a further fifteen jobs. In the next two years if everything goes to schedule we should have a regular workforce of between 45 and 50" Mr. Lyons paid tribute the Mayo Enterprise Board, Joe Mulroy of Mulclare Properties Ltd. and financial advisors whose help, support and vision was instrumental in locating the factory in Mayo. The President of the Claremorris Chamber of Commerce, Mrs. Eileen Dyer said she was delighted that N.W. Textile Manufacturers Ltd. had decided to set up in Claremorris.
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