Amax, a manufacturer of data centre and cloud, custom server appliance and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, has opened its European manufacturing facility at Western Business Park in Shannon, Co. Clare. The development is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation through IDA Ireland.
The location will serve as the European manufacturing facility for Amax’s x86-based server and rack solutions as well as a logistics hub, joining the company’s headquarters in the California and its facilities in China.
The facility will provide 100 jobs over the next five years in production, warehousing, finance and sales.
“The Ireland facility significantly expands our ability, capacity and network throughout the EMEA region to meet the demands of our customers,” said Jean Shih, president, Amax. “With the opening of this new site combined with our existing offices and facilities worldwide, we demonstrate how Amax is actively expanding its capacity and services to support its businesses and customers around the globe.”
Martin Shanahan, CEO of IDA Ireland aded: “It is great news that a global company of the calibre of Amax has decided to locate its European manufacturing facility in Shannon, especially as it is their first European manufacturing facility and is creating a hundred jobs. There is huge growth potential in the whole ICT sector with demand from multiple industry spheres for cloud, Big Data applications and high-performance computing.”
AMAX’s worldwide locations include headquarters in Fremont, California, and offices in Texas to serve North America as well as Suzhou and Shanghai offices to support the Asia-Pacific regions.
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