Full coverage: Manufacturing

Smurfit Kappa shares popped six per cent today as it unveiled its 2022 first-half results. It's a business that finds itself fairly well-suited to times of inflation.

Waterwipes is the number one baby wipe sold on Amazon in the US and Europe, but the Louth-based company behind the brand has found itself in a bit of a mess as decisions go against it in Europe and Britain.

The mid-size dairy processor Arrabawn and Siptu took their dispute over exit pay to the Labour Court on the week the business reported strong results. The court has now made a recommendation.

Dublin-born billionaire engineer David McMurtry is working with the next generation – including an Irishwoman – on the future of all these things. In exclusive interviews, he and the executives leading Renishaw's latest projects talk past, present and future.

Entrepreneur Pat Alley has spent three years fighting on multiple fronts. Yet his enthusiasm for Trifol, a potentially game-changing business that turns end-of-life plastic into wax, remains undimmed.

Quoted Australian company Calix was set to acquire Co Louth firm Premier Periclase out of examinership. However, it has now pulled out due to spiralling gas prices and the only other bidder wants to reduce its 94 staff by 66%. What happens next?

The government has been looking at a number of options for Aughinish Alumina’s extraction plant in Limerick. One of those options involves nationalising the plant, a move designed to secure 400 jobs.

Recent job losses at pharma and electronics companies grabbed the headlines, but what is really happening in Ireland's manufacturing sector?