100 new jobs are to be created at manufacturing company Tricel over the next 18 months.
Recruitment for 40 of these is now underway.
The jobs will be based at Tricel's Headquarters in Killarney, which will be worth an estimated €2.4m to the local economy.
The company currently employs 100 people in Kerry and 250 in total across the group in Ireland, the UK and France.