A major Clacton employer plans to close its factory with the loss of 166 jobs.
The site of C R Bard in Valleybridge Road will shut down over a 12-month period.
Bard, which has been in the town for nearly 40 years, develops, makes and markets healthcare products.
Adrian Wye, director of operations at the Clacton base, said "All production operations will be transferred to existing Bard manufacturing facilities."
Mr Wye added that employees would get a redundancy benefit package and help in finding new jobs.
Dozens of cleaning staff have been made redundant from Harwich International Port.
The 45 part-time employees all worked at the port for DFDS Seaways, cleaning ships that came in. But because new ships will stay in port longer, the vessels' own crews will do the cleaning.
John Crummie, DFDS' UK managing director, said: "Because the ships are new and faster they are in port longer and as a consequence the cleaning will be done by the crew who are on board the ship."
Published Friday August 9, 2002
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