A KENDAL-based engineering firm, which has a branch in Colville Court, Winwick Quay, has announced that there could be redundancies across the company ‘after a difficult trading year in 2009’.

American company Furmanite, which has its UK headquarters in the Lake District and specialises in industrial maintenance, has been consulting with employees over proposed job cuts which will ‘affect employees throughout the UK’.

A statement from the company said: “We will endeavour to minimise the impact to employees and their families by managing the cost reduction in the appropriate manner over the coming weeks.”