UK’s largest bioethanol plant to shut after US trade deal Industrials The UK’s largest bioethanol plant is to shut, its owner has said, after the government decided not offer the struggling factory an emergency funding settlement after months of fraught negotiations. Vivergo Fuels had been locked in talks over its future with the business department since June, after it warned an element of the UK-US trade [...]
Britain’s trade deals mean nothing if we neglect our own industries Opinion Trade deals and global ambitions will mean nothing if Britain neglects its domestic industries, writes Shevaun Haviland.
Wheat and see: Farmers fear trade deal impact on bioethanol and beef markets Economics Ministers and commentators heralded the UK’s trade deal with the United States as a political coup that will save thousands of jobs at British automakers. But changes to beef and bioethanol trade rules have left an already bruised agricultural sector fearing the worst, writes Ali Lyon. When he’s not slavishly editing clips for the hundreds [...]