Wang Laboratories’ decision to shut its five-year-old personal computer plant in Stirling, Scotland and to consolidate the work done there at its Limerick, Ireland plant, has been greeted with a storm of protest from Scottish interests demanding that the struggling company repay at least a part of the UKP4m in government grants it received for setting up the plant with a promise to create 780 jobs. The plant now employs 240 people, and Wang hopes to sell it with the production kit in place to another manufacturer, with a view to the staff being taken on by the new occupant, which is likely to be a Japanese company.
