A textiles factory employing 215 people is to close, it has announced.<\/p>\n
Lenzing, in Grimsby, said the closure was part of a “strategic transformation” across the company, which has sites across the world. <\/p>\n
The North East Lincolnshire site, on Energy Park Way, manufactures Tencel – the brand name for lyocell fibres.<\/p>\n
Matthia Maletzky, from the company, said: “Currently, around 215 people work at the Grimsby site. Lenzing plans to phase-out production by the end of 2027.”<\/p>\n
He said the firm would “engage with employee representatives and relevant stakeholders regarding appropriate support and mitigation measures” for those affected by the closure.<\/p>\n
Lenzing has been running the site since May 2004.<\/p>\n
The company said its new strategy was “designed to improve competitiveness, profitability and return on invested capital”.<\/p>\n
The Unite union, which represents workers at the plant, described the move as “devastating” and said it would be “offering maximum support” to its members.<\/p>\n
Regional officer Mick Simpson said: “We will be scrutinising Lenzing Fibres’ plans and demanding that all options are properly considered.<\/p>\n
“Lenzing Fibres can be certain that Unite will be unrelenting in making sure the best interests of our members are represented as we enter consultations.”<\/p>\n
Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A textiles factory employing 215 people is to close, it has announced. Lenzing, in Grimsby, said the closure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}