Ulster Carpets puts Axminster workers on four-day week

30th March | flooring | Ulster Carpets has put half its workforce on a four-day week. The carpet manufacturer has seen a shortfall in demand for some of its Axminster lines, suggesting the top end has been harder hit since the start of the economic slowdown.

200 staff are thought to have been affected, although a spokesman for the Portadown firm said the measures were a result of the global downturn, and they hoped to return production to normal levels as soon as possible.

Export orders from American have been hit hard.