Merck opens €150m climate-neutral filter manufacturing facility in Ireland1 SHARESPosted: 18 September 2025 | Dominic Tyer (European Pharmaceutical Review) |The German pharma company will create over 200 jobs at its new Blarney site in Cork. Germany’s Merck has opened its first climate-neutral manufacturing facility – a €150 million site at Blarney in Cork that will be powered by 100 percent renewable electricity. It’s the first of the pharma company’s manufacturing operations to have been specifically designed to run on a full climate-neutral basis and marks a key milestone in the company’s ambition to achieve climate neutrality by 2040. The 3,000-square-metre cleanroom facility will be used to support global demand for Merck filtration products used the manufacturing of products such as vaccines, monoclonal antibodies and cell and gene therapies. It will also re-use up to 95 percent of high-purity reverse osmosis water from the company’s filtration manufacturing process.