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Founded 30 years ago through legendary Leeds businessman Jimi Heselden, Hesco demonstrated that the company would close its production lines and meetings in Leeds and move the purposes to Poland.
Approximately a dozen Hesco workers will be held at Leeds for sales and marketing, but all 43 production jobs will be eliminated.
The Yorkshire Post in June, how hesco’s current owners, Praesidiad, planned to move production to Eastern Europe. A company spokesman told the newspaper that the company’s wing in Leeds had experienced a decline in activity in recent years and that the Covid-19 crisis had exacerbated this situation.
“This is due to the adjustments and drop in orders in Hesco in recent years and was evident through the Covid-19 crisis.
“The workers concerned get a comprehensive education to help them find a job of choice.”
This resolution puts an end to 3 decades of Hesco’s production in Leeds.
Founded through Mr. Heselden, the company has gone from being a small leeds workshop to a globally dominant player in the defense sector.
Heselden has developed products such as semi-permanent anti-explosive walls that were widely deployed during conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as to reinforce levees around New Orleans in the days between Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.
Camp Bastion in Afghanistan owes it to its products.
Mr. Heselden himself went from his humble beginnings to a self-taught billionaire.
Having left school at 15, he was a coal miner who lost his homework after the mid-1980s movements.
A famous philanthropist, he donated tens of millions of books to charities and won an OBE in 2006.
He died 10 years ago when he fell off a cliff while driving a Segway.