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Materials developer to move footwear foam production to Asia

26/08/2026

Trade union organisation GMB has issued a statement to express concern about cellular materials specialist Zotefoams moving production from the UK to Vietnam.

The company has been making materials in Croydon, near London, since the 1920s. It specialised in expanded rubber materials before moving to polymer-based foam production in the 1960s. 

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