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    The government’s industrial strategy was at risk of smashing into pieces after it emerged the country’s largest fibre glass factory is set to close. The Japanese owners of Electric Glass Fiber UK’s factory in Wigan, near Manchester, which produces materials used in electric cars and wind turbines, decided to close the site at a meeting [...]

    The Wigan site of Nippon Electric Glass made fibreglass that is used to reinforce plastic for composites found in wind turbine blades and electric cars. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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