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Nearly 400 Workers to Lose Jobs in Proposed Grangemouth Closure
Syngenta said the site remains too costly to run, despite a joint UK and Scottish Government package and £2.2 million in public funding.
- On Thursday, chemical producer Syngenta announced a formal consultation on the potential closure of its Grangemouth site, placing 377 jobs at risk, though the company stressed no final decision has been made.
- Syngenta stated the Grangemouth site remains "significantly more expensive to operate than other production sites," citing increasing international competition and challenging energy conditions as primary obstacles.
- The company received more than £2 million in Scottish Enterprise funding last year, yet the site operates within the "Grangemouth cluster," Scotland's largest concentration of industry and infrastructure.
- Flynn stated the Scottish Government "strongly opposed" the plans and urged the UK Government to release £200m in committed funding, saying "not a single penny has yet been allocated from that fund promised in 2024."
- This potential loss follows the closure of the nearby Grangemouth refinery last year, which resulted in about 400 redundancies, adding to decades of steady deindustrialization affecting the town.
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