30 January 2017:
Beet Ireland is close to buying a site on the Carlow-Kildare border for a new national sugar-processing plant.
The lobby group is understood to be finalising a deal to acquire a 200-acre site in the Ballyburn area, just outside Castledermot, with plans to redevelop it into a €150m high-tech sugar processing facility, capable of producing up to 200,000 tonnes of sugar a year.
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