The world number two for aluminum, the Canadian group Alcan, which employs 65 000 people in 59 countries, announced this week the shutdown of two factories in Great Britain, leading to some 400 job cuts. (Réf. 06730)
The factory of Workington, close to Manchester, where 161 people manufacture high-resisting alloy sections for the aircraft industry, will close by the end of June 2007, and the production will be transferred to the French factories of Issoire (Puy-de-Dome) and Montreuil-Juigné (Maine-and-Loire). The food packing factory of Midsomer Norton (near Bristol), which employs 218 employees, must close before the end of 2006. The site suffers, according to the company, from a sinking demand and an incr
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