Five dry ice jobs in Santry

A LEADING international chemical company has officially opened a dry ice manufacturing site in Santry with an initial workforce of five employees.

Most of us associate dry ice with the entertainment industry but Norwegian-based Yara Ireland also provides its product across a variety of sectors including aviation, refrigeration, food storage and medical services.

The new plant has a capacity to create up to 10,000 tonnes of dry ice every year. Yara’s Petter Ã?stbø explained the company’s decision to base in Santry.

“While Yara have been operating for some time in Ireland, we decided to invest in this new strategically located manufacturing site in Dublin to serve the Irish market on demand, in small or large quantities, of dry ice as required,

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The Norwegian Chargé d’Affaires in Ireland, Sølve Steinhovden, was welcomed to the plant last week by Irish and Norwegian Yara personnel and the official opening was presided over by representatives from IDA Ireland.

Speaking at the official opening, Market Manager of Yara Ireland Gerard Dore said:

“Yara is committed to being the best dry ice producer in Ireland in terms of product quality and delivery service and today’s official opening of the manufacturing site here is testament to this fact.

“There are currently five employees on site and we expect this figure to grow as the business scales to meet market demand for our solutions.

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Yara Ireland offers next-day dry ice shipments all over Ireland. Additionally the company says it can manufacture and deliver to the greater Dublin area within four hours of customers ordering.

Yara is a global leader in the provision of nitrogen based mineral industrial products and fertilizers. The Santry manufacturing site is focused on dry ice manufacturing, while the company also has sites in Northern Ireland providing fertilizers to the farming sector.

Yara is also the leading bulk CO2 industrial gas supplier into Ireland having been established since 1998.