Senvion said the factory run by its PowerBlades subsidiary in Welland has completed all production linked to local orders under Ontario’s feed-in-tariff (FiT) and will shut with the loss of 136 jobs.

It said: “Closing down the blade facility was a last option, but owing to unacceptably high financial risks, a necessary one due to the reduction in near-term demand from regional markets that Senvion was planning to serve from its Ontario facility.

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