Omagh is to get 150 new high-tech jobs over the next three years as one of the world's top CD-R producers prepares to move in with the single largest inward investment in the town since the August l998 bomb atrocity.
Ritek of Taiwan announced today it was setting up a company, Rixell Ltd, to manufacture optical storage discs for the European market.
Northern Ireland trade minister Sir Reg Empey said: "It's a vote of confidence in the new political arrangements, the people of Omagh and Northern Ireland."
The investment is worth £27.7m sterling.
The firm examined sites in America, Asia and other parts of Europe before deciding to locate in the Co Tyrone town. The Omagh plant is planning to have 27 CD-R production lines capable of manufacturing 17 million units a month.
Rixell director Mr Steven Tseng said: "We will create a world-class facility at Omagh as the central element in our strategy to become the primary supplier of optical storage products in Europe."
Ritek, which was founded in l988, employs 4,000 people worldwide and already has a majority shareholding in a west Belfast firm, Multimedia Info Tech.
Mr Tseng added: "Omagh was chosen over a number of alternative locations because we judged it best met our essential requirement for a pool of well educated and easily motivated people, keen to train in the skills that we need."