A NEW, £500,000 purpose-built facility for the fluid purification products company, Carl Stuart, was opened in the Tallaght Business Park by the Minister of State for Commerce, Science and Technology, Mr Pat Rabbitte, yesterday.

The company, started in 1984 by Stuart and Gillian Smith now employs 14 people in Dublin and Belfast. Mr Rabbitte said the company was part of the burgeoning business growth which was under way in Tallaght.