Plastics firm readies itself for looming Brexit storm

At the helm of Automatic Plastics, the injection moulding business started in Co Wicklow in 1972 by his parents, Al Lawless oversees 110 employees in a 45,000 square feet factory in Tinahely.

“My father started with one machine in an old timber barn just off the main street in Tinahely and, in 1975, built the purpose-built factory we’re in now at the edge of the village,” said Lawless, who joined the business full-time ...