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Article: James Robinson to exit UK.
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- Process Engineering
- Article date:
- July 31, 2005
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Speciality chemicals producer James Robinson is to close down its plant in Huddersfield, transferring production to existing sites in Germany and India. R&D and sales and marketing will remain in the UK, relocated to new premises including purpose-built laboratories, but some 35 manufacturing jobs will be lost.
The company has been manufacturing in Huddersfield since 1840, making it one of the oldest chemical sites in Europe. Originally, it extracted dyestuffs from natural sources such as wood, but soon switched to manufacturing sulphur dyes. From the 1970s, it began to diversify into photographic colours and hair dyes, becoming involved in the ...