Seagate Shutting Down Northern Ireland Hard Drive Plant
Seagate Technology, the world’s largest maker of hard drives, said Monday it is shuttering one of two manufacturing facilities in Northern Ireland, resulting in a cut of 780 employees, about 1.5 percent of the company’s global work force. Seagate established operations in Limavady in 1997 to manufacture high quality, super-polished aluminium substrates for use in Seagate hard drives. The plant was the only internal supplier of substrates which are used in a variety of Seagate hard drives such as for desktops, servers and X-boxes. It looks like the work here is moving to Malaysia.
The company is closing a 10-year-old plant in Limavady in County Derry that manufactures substrate materials used in disks for hard drives, Seagate spokesman Woody Monroy said. Monroy did not know how much money the company would save from the move but said it is part of Seagate’s ongoing effort to streamline operations. He said Seagate expanded substrate manufacturing at its facilities in Singapore and Malaysia last year while external suppliers have lowered their costs.
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