Chemical company Dow has closed its last remaining Teesside facility with the loss of 30 jobs.
The Amines and Chelants plant at Seal Sands will be razed in the next few months, after the company claimed ‘challenging operational conditions’ had brought it to a point where it could not sustain an economically viable site’.
The global speciality chemical company is helping staff to find new jobs in Teesside’s chemicals sector, with assistance from process industry cluster NEPIC.
A spokesperson said: “Dow’s chelants organisation in Europe faces ongoing challenging operational conditions; including the lack of a cost effective and reliable supply of a key raw material, as well as overcapacity of liquid chelant production in the region.
“These factors resulted in the business needing to review its long term strategic options for the chelant and sodium sarcosinate production at Seal Sands.”
Dow closed its Wilton ethylene oxide and glycol (EOEG) production facility at Wilton (pictured above) in 2009 with the loss of 55 jobs.
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