Iralco or the Irish Aluminium Company is the former name of a car parts manufacturer situated in

Collinstown Collinstown () is a village in north County Westmeath, situated on the R395 regional road overlooking Lough Lene. It lies northeast of the county town of Mullingar and (as of the 2016 census) had a population of 356. Toponymy The Irish name ...

County Westmeath "Noble above nobility" , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg , subdivision_type = Sovereign state, Country , subdivision_name = Republic of Ireland, Ireland , subdivision_type1 = Provinces o ...

in Ireland. The company was initially established in 1964 by Franz Pohl, a German entrepreneur. As of 2008, it was producing components for a number of car manufacturers in Europe, including

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, Ford,

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and

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. In August 2008, the company was taken over by C&F Automotive Limited, and in 2018 was sold to Decotek Automotive Limited. At the time of the 2018 sale, it had approximately 390 employees. As of 2023, Decotek Automotive still had operations in Collinstown.

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