Jobs axed at Hewden depot in Willenhall after firm collapses
Nearly half the workforce at crane and plant hire firm Hewden's depot at Willenhall have lost their jobs after the company collapsed into administration.
Of 36 staff at the depot 15 have been made redundant immediately.
The rest have been kept on to look after equipment and machinery on hire to existing customers while administrators from accountancy giant EY try to salvage what remains of the business.
More than 250 people at Hewden sites across the UK have lost their jobs, just weeks after the company said that Brexit was hitting its business.
The Manchester-based rental company said in October that it had been hit by market uncertainty following the vote to leave the EU.
Hewden was originally owned by Finning, which runs the UK's Caterpillar equipment dealership from its headquarters in Cannock.
It sold the business to Sun Capital for £110m in 2010. At the time it employed 1,300 people at 63 locations.
