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TYTEX, Youghal’s last manufacturing factory to close with loss of 80 jobs
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80 jobs are to go with the closure of the Tytex Ireland Ltd. plant in Youghal town. The Tytex factory provided niche medical textile products that help to improve quality of life for people all over the world. Youghalonline.com reporter Photo: Michael Hussey www.youghalonline.com
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Tytex Ireland Ltd. production plant Youghal
The plant at Springfield Industrial Park has been there for nearly 24 years. It is understood that the Danish owned company now intends to relocate the Youghal operation to other plants in Eastern Europe and South-East Asia.
Tytex workers Syd Howe, Mark Treacy, Bernard Leamy, Paula Plante and Tommy Kenefick pictured during the Tytex Ireland Ltd. open day-May 2007
Staff were informed of the closure by management yesterday afternoon. Following the announcement employees were told they could go home and needn’t return to work until next Monday. They were informed that the factory will close by March 2011. The news came as a bitter blow to the town which has lost more than 2,500 factory jobs in the past 10 years.
Tytex staff Angela Hehir with Mayor of Youghal, Cllr. Sandra McLellan pictured during the Tytex Ireland Ltd. open day-May 2007
Speaking to Youghalonline, The Mayor of Youghal, Cllr Sandra McLellan said she was “very sad to see the last manufacturing factory leave the town” She had worked in a number of factories which have closed down in recent years, including Youghal Carpets, Dennison and Artesyn Technologies.
Paddy Dwyer-Harrington, Michael Murphy, Una Long, John Neville, Francois De Vrije from the Belgian Embassy, Michael Sheehan MD, Pauline Ayres, Samantha Garvey and John Murray - Pictured during the Belgian attaché visit to the plant - Sept. 2008
Seafield Fabrics, Blackwater Cottons, Kodak and Bryant Rubbers have also closed their doors in recent years. Youghal town councillor Donie Daly told Youghalonline that ” It is a huge blow to the workers and their families and to the economy of the town” At its height Tytex employed more than 150 people. Some of the 80 workers have been with the company for more than 20 years.
Click on image to see the Tytex Ireland Ltd plant during happier times at the open day back in May 2007
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2,500 job losses in ten years and not a single replacement is scandulous.
Despite the current economic downturn, Youghal has been in its own downturn since the late 1990s. I hope that the employess of Tytex who will be losing their jobs will be afforded the same conditions and support that the former Dell employees are receiving.
Former Dell employees have a fund setup for them consisting of €15m from the E.U. and another €8m from government to be used in training and assistance to find replacement employment. While there was approximately 2,400 employees in Dell that still works out to be €10,000 per employee,
I’m sure that it should not be too difficult or costly to provide the same assistance to the 80 employees of Tytex after all it is the very least that they deserve for their loyalty over the years.