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Signs of improvement

Factories expecting fewer job cuts as confidence grows

women female engineeer (Institute of Engineering and Technology)
Industry is seeing signs of improvement Scottish Engineering, the trade group for the country’s industrial companies, said expectations of job losses had slowed amid “tentative signs of improvement”. Companies planningRead More

Daily Business Live

Biden boost for Dow; Pets At Home; Compass; Devro; Enquest

Joe Biden
REFRESH PAGE FOR UPDATES 4.30pm: Biden marks new landmark as Dow hits record President-elect Joe Biden crossed a historic milestone by receiving 80 million votes, more than any candidate in USRead More

Building breakthrough

More Scots timber poised for use in UK construction

Scottish timber
Scots timber is undergoing tests More Scottish timber could be used in UK construction following a project under way to test its suitability for a range of purposes. Timber grownRead More

Packaging

Gray succeeds Love as Macfarlane FD

Ivor Gray
John Love is retiring as group finance director of Glasgow packaging company Macfarlane after 24 years and will be succeeded by Ivor Gray, pictured, currently group financial controller and finance secretary. Mr LoveRead More

Daily Business Live

Online drives Royal Mail; Cineworld ‘CVA’; Macfarlane

Royal Mail parcel post box (pic: Royal Mail)
REFRESH PAGE FOR UPDATES 4.45pm: Economic blues weigh on market The FTSE 100 closed 50 points (0.8%) lower at 6,334.4 as worries over economic damage replaced the recent optimism overRead More

70 jobs created

Alvance drops wheel plan for recycling plant

Lochaber smelter
The facility will see more jobs A £94 million investment in an aluminium recycling and casting facility in the Highlands will create 70 jobs and safeguard 200. Alvance Aluminium, aRead More

Cutbacks planned

Union urges Petroineos to use furlough to save jobs

Grangemouth
Grangemouth facing job cuts Nearly 190 jobs are under threat at Grangemouth oil refinery after its owners announced plans to scale back operations at the site. Petroineos is to launchRead More

£3.1m raised

Funds help develop ‘tougher than steel’ graphene process

Claus Marquordt of Integrated Graphene
Claus Marquordt: first to market A Scottish company which is developing a process for fusing graphene onto a variety of materials has raised £3.1m from investors to scale up itsRead More

Anger at statement

Hyslop ‘deflecting’ failure to help BiFab say unions

Bifab protest
BiFab workers have campaigned to save jobs (pic: Terry Murden) Trade unions have accused the Scottish government of deflecting criticism of its role in the crisis at the Bifab engineeringRead More

Monday Update

DB Live: Sharma says UK collaboration ‘works well’

Alok Sharma
REFRESH PAGE FOR UPDATES 4.30pm: FTSE 100 defies gloom The FTSE 100 defied the downbeat mood over Covid and the economy to bounce back strongly, closing 77.7 points higher (1.39%)Read More