A THIRD of the workforce at one of Redditch's largest manufacturers is being made redundant over the next six weeks.
Between 50 and 60 jobs at British Alcan Aluminium in Studley Road are being axed straight away and another 100 will follow before the end of September. The redundancies in the extrusion side of the business are as a direct result of British Aluminium's merger with Alcan UK last year.
They follow a survey and reports by study teams on all of British Alcan Aluminium's factories throughout the United Kingdom on ways of increasing efficiency.
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Director and general manager Mr Tony Ponting said the two separate firms were losing something in the region of £40 a year between them at the time of the merger.
The extrusion side of the Redditch factory's two-part business is being closed down because its plant is "poor" compared with the firm's factories elsewhere.
Instead it will concentrate on the other side of its business, which is aluminium tubes - a side it hopes to consolidate and eventually expand.
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