Alcon Ireland
Alcon Laboratories Ireland Ltd
Cork Business & Technology Park
Model Farm Road
Cork, Ireland
Tel: 353+21.486.5100
Located in Cork, in Southern Ireland, Alcon's manufacturing facility employs approximately 200 people focused on delivering the world's leading intraocular lense (IOL), AcrySof®, to various countries around the globe. Alcon's AcrySof® lenses are implanted in six of every 10 cataract surgery patients worldwide.
Alcon Ireland is certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 13485, illustrating the focus in Cork on high-quality manufacturing. Each of the more than 1 million lenses manufactured here undergoes 77 different quality inspections to ensure a consistently high-quality product every time. Man, machine and material are traced for every lens produced at the plant. This means every single lens we produce is traceable for at least 30 years. Furthermore, the final two-thirds of the production and inspection of each lens is conducted in a class 10,000 cleanroom to ensure the lens is ultra-clean even prior to sterilization.
Because the implantable products manufactured in Cork are very important, so are the dedicated and highly qualified people who manufacture them. All associates undergo rigorous training before working with the product. An ongoing investment in associate training and development at the Cork facility ensures that Alcon's associates strive to continuously improve upon their manufacturing excellence.