Vivergo Fuels to shut down after US trade deal if Government does not intervene

The UK’s largest bioethanol producer has told wheat farmers purchases will be ‘scaled back’ from next month

Alex Black
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Vivergo Fuels to shut down after US trade deal if Government does not intervene

Vivergo Fuels has warned it will be forced to shut down unless the Government urgently intervenes to fix the damage caused by the UK-US trade deal and long-standing regulatory failures. The UK's...

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