Meltham Mills engineering firms cease trading

Aug 22 2009 by Henryk Zientek, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

TWO engineering firms in Huddersfield has ceased trading with the loss of about 50 jobs.

Administrators said they had been unable to find any takers for Meltham Mills Engineering (MME) and sister company Meltham Mills Heat Treatment (MMHT).

Insolvency experts from Batley-based O’Hara and Co were called in by the firms’ bosses at the end of July after running into financial problems.

A spokesman for the administrator said: “Both companies have been trading during administration, but unfortunately they have now ceased trading because we have not managed to sell the businesses as a going concern.”

Machinery and other assets of the businesses would now be sold, he added.

The spokesman said that about 25 jobs had been lost at each of the two businesses, which had been hit by falling order levels.

He said: “It would have been good for the sake of the staff to find a buyer to take the business forward, but that was not to be.”