A Donegal packaging company has signed a multi-million euro contract with one of Europe’s leading food group processors.
ProAmpac – formerly Rapid Action Packaging – has operated out of Gaoth Dobhair Business Park since 1997 and currently employs 200 people there.
The firm has signed a contract with C&D Foods, the pet food division of ABP Food Group. The multi-year contract establishes ProAmpac’s facility in the Gaeltacht as the strategic supplier of flexible pet food packaging for C&D.
The contract is expected to facilitate site production expansion and further job creation which will significantly contribute to making Gaoth Dobhair a global centre of pet food and sustainable ready-to-eat packaging manufacturing. ProAmpac employs 5,200 staff working across 41 operations globally.
Operations Director of ProAmpac Gaoth Dobhair, John McDermott, said, “Due to the commitment, diligence and innovation of the staff and management of ProAmpac, we have made significant strides in developing new business that will now provide growth and stability at a time when it is most needed.
ProAmpac – formerly Rapid Action Packaging – has operated out of west Donegal since 1997. It employs 200 people and aims to expand following the closure of the deal with C&D Foods.
“We are very excited to expand our C&D Foods partnership given the positive impact it now has on our ProAmpac Donegal facility. Our firms will collaborate in developing leading-edge packaging innovations in Ireland for Ireland and across Europe. This partnership will also facilitate production and employment expansion while enhancing the ProAmpac Donegal facility as a global hub for both human and pet food sustainable packaging innovation.”
ProAmpac is supported by Údarás na Gaeltachta. Its chairperson, Anna Ní Ghallachair, added, “On behalf of the Board of Údarás na Gaeltachta, I welcome this announcement and congratulate ProAmpac and its staff on this significant agreement and the creation of additional jobs in the Donegal Gaeltacht. This announcement is further testament to what can be achieved by companies in rural Ireland today, and the north-west Donegal Gaeltacht is no exception in this regard.”
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