Anonymous ID: 10062f July 18, 2021, 8:05 a.m. No.14148640   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Not just jobs, now the Chineese are taking infrastructure

 

https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-07-18/How-and-why-a-Scotch-whisky-distillery-is-moving-to-China-120eqeeK5sQ/index.html

 

Many visitors to Scotland take home a bottle of whisky as a memento – but China's Mengtai Group has gone a touch further this week by relocating an entire distillery from Moray to Mongolia.

 

More than 35 tonnes of equipment, from stills and pipework right down to the flooring, are being disassembled in Buckie, on the north-facing coast of Scotland near Aberdeen. The kit will be shipped to the Chinese port of Tianjin, on the east-facing coast across the Yellow Sea from the Korean Peninsula, and then transported to Ordos in Inner Mongolia.

 

The distillery equipment was built by Rothes-based manufacturer Forsyths, which is sending a supervisory team of five engineers for the assembly process and will provide after-sales services via its Hong Kong office.

 

Meanwhile, Scottish Chambers of Commerce CEO Liz Cameron has said: "This is a fantastic development especially in the current global economic crisis we are all facing with the coronavirus.

 

"Through our International Trade Partnership with the Scottish Government, this helped facilitate the unique trading relationship which has been formed between Inner Mongolia and Scotland enabling this fantastic contract to be signed."