MEDICAL equipment company Ethicon is pushing more distribution work to its North Yorkshire operations as it scales down its manufacturing operations in Scotland.
The firm will axe 850 jobs when it closes its surgical stitches and needle factories in Edinburgh and distribution centres in Livingston, West Lothian, during the next three years.
It proposes to transfer production of suture finishing from Edinburgh to Puerto Rico, while needle production will switch to sites in Brazil, the US and Germany.
Distribution will transfer to the company's facilities, primarily Gargrave in North Yorkshire. But Ethicon, which is owned by healthcare company Johnson & Johnson, said it will continue the manufacture of surgical stitches at its Livingston plant, where 525 people are employed.
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