Fexco set to expand subject to planning

THE directors behind Killorglin financial services company Fexco will find out in three weeks if plans to transform the former Liebig premises and relocate up to 200 staff have satisfied the council’s planning department.

With increased operations across the world, the company is running out of space at its Iveragh Road site and a planning application to expand into the Anglont property is currently with Kerry County Council with submissions to close this Thursday.

Fexco claims that the additional office space is necessary to facilitate the ongoing growth of the business and increase in staff numbers as the proposed relocation would facilitate new staff at Iveragh Road. The application stops short, though, at indicating just how many new jobs could be created.

Just two kilometres east of Killorglin, the Killarney road site would undergo a transformation that would include a new facade to ‘ better express the character of Fexco’s international business’.

The application is for a change of use from light industry to offices of part of the 4,300 square metre factory which Liebig opened in 1969 with a 100-strong staff. The firm was eventually taken over in 2008 by Canadian based Simpson Strong Tie and eventually closed in 2012.

Fexco’s application includes plans for the demolition of an administration block and outbuildings and their replacement with a two storey extension, while the site entrance would be relocated and a new 150 space staff car park created.

Last month Fexco was granted temporary planning for 50 further parking spaces at a vacant commercial site next to its premises due to the acute parking problem employees are experiencing.