In June 2022, then-Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar cut the ribbon on Trinseo’s new global business services hub on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay in Dublin’s docklands. Four years on, the global plastics manufacturer has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings that will trigger a multi-billion-dollar examinership in Dublin. The young Dublin office, which employed 129 people when Trinseo Services Ireland Limited last filed accounts, for 2024, is just the tip of the iceberg. Trinseo is the current name of what used to be called Styron, the plastics business that was sold by the US-based industrial multinational…

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