Norbord

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Former PM, Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP visiting Norbord's plant at Cowie++Former PM, Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP and Rt Hon Anne McGuire MP at Norbord++Former PM, Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP and Rt Hon Jim Murphy MP at Norbord++Former PM, Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP visits employees of Norbord++Former PM, Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP meets Norbord workers++

On 25th March 2010, then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown MP, took time to visit Norbord’s plant at Cowie, Stirlingshire. On the visit he was accompanied by then Secretary of State for Scotland and MP for Renfreshire East, Jim Murphy and local MP Anne McGuire who has maintained a strong and consistent interest in the company and its employees.

The visit gave Mr Brown the opportunity to see at first hand the investment that Norbord have made both in terms of capital assets and in training for the workforce. It was also a chance for company officials to discuss with the politicians present what impact the Renewables Obligation and the UK’s focus on biomass as a renewable fuel is having on established timber processing concerns such as Norbord.