EMCON Technology are an American company who make vehicle exhaust products at factories at Warton and Squires Gate, Blackpool. The Blackpool Evening Gazette says it was announced today that 100 jobs will be moved abroad from Squires Gate and the plant closed due to over-capacity. This is the second note this month on this blog where an American company has moved work from Lancashire to the continent. The pound may have gone down but it isn’t making us cost efficient against more centralised facilities as demand has dropped.
The company said they’d looked at logistics and transport when making their decision. Maybe north-west England is at a disadvantage for European routes and whatever transport improvements are made they can only lessen this disadvantage not remove it.
It also said that they supply Toyota and Jaguar in the UK so that is a bit less UK benefit from those companies as well.
I’m an old worker in the Emcom(my Company was named ArvinMeritor in the past),now in pension.
I know very well the philosophy of these American multinational company.
The only word that they understand is : business over the heads of the workers.
They don’t have esitation to cloose or move the manufacturing , also in their statetements ,the same write that the people must reiceive attention ( this is clearly false , on the base of recent events ).
We have long history in Italy , German , USA of closed Site or moved in other country with very low costs of works and general condition of salary.
I think that the future for the Company is ” dark ).
Regards ( excuse for my english , but didn’t my mother language