An award-winning Dumfries PPE manufacturing company that used a £4.8 million taxpayer grant to help build a state-of-the-art factory has announced it is to make 65 staff redundant.
Alpha Solway director Steven Binnie said yesterday the decision to shut the plant at Irongray Industrial Estate - built in a matter of weeks at the start of the Covid pandemic - was made to “protect the company and its remaining team against continued deterioration”.
The £12 million state-of-the-art facility at Heathhall, which only began production in May, will remain open.
