Cork firm Réalta Technologies is set to double its workforce

ENTERPRISE Minister Simon Coveney has hailed the announcement by a Cork-based technology company that it is to create 60 jobs over the next year and open a new office in the city as part of a €5m investment.

Réalta Technologies, which is based in Ballyvourney and specialises in digital systems and data analytics, is set to double its workforce to 120 over the coming 12 months.

The company, which already has offices in Ballyvourney, Limerick, Delaware in the US, and Chennai in India, has opened a new office in Ballincollig.

Speaking to The Echo, Mr Coveney described the news as “a great story of entrepreneurship, hard work, and business success out of Ballyvourney”.

Founded

Réalta Technologies was founded as Sullane Automation by Gaeltacht native Abán O’Sullivan in 2017, and in 2020 he was joined as joint managing director by Dan Moore.

“Working with Enterprise Ireland and Údarás na Gaeltachta, two very dynamic young men have effectively built a company that is now going global, they’ve gone from having no office and effectively having no people working for them to now building a global presence,” Mr Coveney said.

He added that the company’s engineers work with customers in the UK, Portugal, Ghana, and Canada, “and soon in China”, and the company includes among its clients Janssen, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Stryker, and Munster Rugby.

“It’s a really good example of how an Irish company has built success on the back of collaboration and partnership with big multinationals in Ireland,” Mr Coveney said.

“They have built trust with those companies here in Cork in terms of automation and expansion within those companies’ manufacturing facilities, and because they’ve done that, opportunities have opened up with those companies in other parts of the world.”

Mr Coveney said it demonstrated the importance of multinational companies in Ireland as a source of opportunity for local businesses to grow and expand in partnership with them.

“As a minister of enterprise from Cork, this is quite an impressive success story that I think is really worth celebrating.” Abán O’Riordan, founder and joint managing director of the company, said the announcement supported the company’s growth over the past two years.

“Our plans for the coming year are based on continuing on this path in a sustained and measured way, building on our success since we began the business in 2017,” Mr O’Riordan said.