14 JOBS GO AS MOUNTBELLEW FACTORY CLOSES

Date Published: 15-Apr-2008

14 jobs are to go in Mountbellew with the closure of the manufacturing sector of what used to be HITEC.

Staff were notified about the closure at the end of February and the factory is due to close it’s doors on Friday Week April 25th.

Negotiations with SIPTU have taken place and redundancy packages have been agreed for all staff.

The closure is understood to be as a result of a drop-off in sales and increasing operating costs as well as the poor performance of the euro against sterling and the dollar.

The owner of Biotron says he will continue the business on his own, designing products for the computer industry.