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UK tannery closes due to demand for skins in China

05/04/2011

UK-based tannery Fenland Sheepskin Company has called in business rescue and insolvency practitioner Peter O'Duffy as it is going into liquidation.

Twenty-three of the 28 staff at the company’s base in Somerset have been made redundant. The remaining five are being kept on temporarily to complete work on skins still on site.

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