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Our History

Smithstown Light Engineering was founded by Brian King in 1974 and has been manufacturing in Shannon since then. Starting out with a workforce of 4 skilled toolmakers, Smithstown has steadily built over the years and now employs over 140 people.  Based in Smithstown Industrial Estate in Shannon, Smithstown Light Engineering is a second generation indigenous Irish firm serving the top medical device and orthopaedic companies in the world.

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1974

Brian King Smithstown Light Engineering

Company founded by Brian King

Started with workforce of 4 skilled toolmakers.

1984

molex

Formed partnership with Molex

This partnership strengthened our position in supplying plastic injection moulds to the electronics industry. We also manufactured high precision production tooling and jigs and fixtures.

1990

Precision parts at Smithstown Light Engineering

Move to Medical Device Manufacturing

Our strong background in developing high quality products stood us well and we moved to develop the quality systems to support this new focus.

2003

ISO13485 for Medical Devices

Since then, we have invested heavily in machinery, technology and in our staff to become a premium supplier in the medical devices sector.

2006

Smithstown Logo

Smithstown returns to 100% Irish ownership

Molex accepted an offer from Smithstown for their share in the company. We implemented ISO 90001 to further strengthen our QMS.

2011

Gerard King Smithstown Light Engineering

Gerard King becomes MD

2013

Expansion at Site 1 Smithstown Light Engineering

14,000sq ft extension

To allow for future growth of the company, we extended our building and continued to invest in technology by adding several new machining resources.

2017

2nd facility for Smithstown Light Engineering

2nd Manufacturing site opened with 10,000sq ft

Having reached capacity at our headquarters, we opened a second facility and hired 30 new staff.

2019

Smithstown Light Eng team

Extended our 2nd Manufacturing site by 30,000sq ft

Our new manufacturing facility was officially opened by Pat Breen TD, Minister for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection.

2020

Smithstown Polska

New site in Poland

We opened our 3rd manufacturing facility in Rzeszów

2021

Launched Smithstown Additive

Following 3 years of research, planning and investment, we have brought the whole additive manufacturing technology process under one roof.

2021

Gerard Henn with Aidan McNamara, Smithstown Light Engineering

Gerard Henn Appointed CEO

Our Locations


Shannon Site 1
Smithstown Light Engineering, Bay H1A Smithstown Industrial Estate, Shannon, County Clare, V14 W594 Ireland.
Get Directions 353 (0)61 362111 info[@]sle.ie
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Shannon Site 2
Smithstown Light Engineering, East Park, Shannon, County Clare, V14 NW92 Ireland.
Get Directions 353 (0)61 362111 info[@]sle.ie
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Poland Site
Smithstown Polska, Kapitałowa 3, 35-213 Rzeszów, Poland.
Get Directions +48 17 881 11 30 info[@]smithstown.pl
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Smithstown Light Engineering. Bay H1A Smithstown Industrial Estate, Shannon, County Clare, V14 W594, Ireland
+353 (0) 61 362 111
info@sle.ie
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