Chemicals companies at Grangemouth are considering ways to recreate the central training policies of the big companies as part of efforts to provide more apprentices for Scotland’s second-largest export sector.
Under ICI and BP, the giant industrial complex on the Forth trained apprentices who would then be distributed across the sector.
But since the break-up of ICI and its £8 billion sale to Dutch conglomerate Akzo Nobel in 2008, smaller companies have only taken on the trainees they can afford.
That has left a shortage of chemical engineers across the UK, with fast-growing emerging markets such as China also hoovering up talent. READ MORE
But since the break-up of ICI and its £8 billion sale to Dutch conglomerate Akzo Nobel in 2008, smaller companies have only taken on the trainees they can afford.
That has left a shortage of chemical engineers across the UK, with fast-growing emerging markets such as China also hoovering up talent. READ MORE
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