A PHARMACEUTICAL company will be cutting 18 jobs.
Wokhardt UK, on Wrexham Industrial Estate, is shedding the night shift posts after orders tumbled in the US.
The redundancies will reduce the workforce on Ash Road North to 307.
Yesterday, company managing director Sijiwan Singh said it was unfortunate, but a sign of the times.
He said: “To a great extent our clients for pharmaceutical and biotechnology products are in the US.
“But because of the credit crunch financing is becoming increasingly difficult.
“It is unfortunate, but with this whole meltdown, our clients and orders are diminishing day by day.”
Mr Singh said the night shift affected by the job cuts was only started in addition to the two existing shifts after an upsurge last year.
But the company, which manufactures medicine, vaccines, nutrition products, and pharmacy ingredients, would now scale back to two shifts.
The Wrexham plant is part of an international group with its headquarters in India.
The cuts are the latest to hit the region as manufacturing industries struggle in the current economic gloom.
