Siemens has warned its plans to eventually export wind turbine blades from the UK will have to be put on hold because of last week’s Brexit vote. The German industrial conglomerate said the EU referendum decision would not affect its plans to employ 1,000 people at a £160m manufacturing plant in Hull, which is due to start producing blades for the UK’s offshore wind farm industry this year. But a long-term goal to export blades to Europe and other countries was now uncertain, said Juergen Maier, the company’s UK chief executive.
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