Engineering firm BiFab is being urged to change the status of its closure-threatened yard on Lewis to “care and maintenance” so it can quickly restart operations if the market improves.
Production has ceased at the site outside Stornoway, with the last 30 employees working out their redundancy notices.
BiFab’s order book is empty and its sole contract for 26 turbine foundations for the Beatrice wind scheme is winding down.
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