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Sun shutters Scottish manufacturing site

Oliver Jones

Ah, they finally closed it? 

Posted Thursday 11th December 2008 21:52 GMT

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That particular hot potato has been on the menu for years. Still, it's sad to see yet more jobs moving out of the UK - it won't be long before you have to travel to India, China or the US to get any job that involves research and development - nobody does this in the UK anymore.

jcipale

Dont look now... 

Posted Friday 12th December 2008 10:08 GMT

Black Helicopters

"nobody does this in the UK anymore"

And it is getting to the point they no longer do it in the US either. Care for a little bit of curry with your meal? Perhaps a side of Peking DUck?

Anonymous Coward

@Oliver Jones 

Posted Friday 12th December 2008 13:29 GMT

Actually there are lots of companies doing R&D in the UK, that's one area where the UK is quite strong.

It's the work of turning that R&D into hard cash by productizing it that is going to cheap labour countries. Note that the plant Sun is closing is the *manufacturing* plant, R&D work is still being done in the UK by Sun.

Still, with skilled wage inflation in India running at 25% it won't be a cheap place to outsource to for much longer. China and Eastern Europe are the hot places these days.