Jobs to go at turbocharger company
Job cuts are being made at a manufacturing plant in Lincoln.
Napier turbochargers is to lose up to 19 posts at its site in Ruston House, Waterside South.
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The company said it is seeking voluntary redundancies and is hoping to limit the number of compulsory cuts.
Managing director Andy Thacker said the firm was working with the trade unions. "These redundancies are necessary to reduce our cost base in order to secure the long term future of the business and ensure we remain competitive," he said.
Napier Turbochargers designs, manufactures, markets and support a range of turbochargers within the marine power, rail traction and power generation industries.
It employs 159 people in Lincoln.
For more stories see Friday's Lincolnshire Echo.
Comments
by David, lincoln
Monday, July 06 2009, 8:51AM
“Soon there will no engineering in Lincoln.Our once great heritage, renowned skill and quality and famous names (Napier, Dorman, Ruston) etc etc will be read about in our museum instead of the names been seen on the side of industrial buildings. When Bucyrus Europe closes its doors for the final time in December that will be the Ruston and Bucyrus names gone from Lincoln for ever. This is a very bad state of affairs.
What is next? I guess we will go the same way as Sheffield. Build a huge shopping centre and employ skilled engineers to flip burgers, sweep floors or man the shop counters.”