Perth and Kinross Council’s leader said bringing 200 jobs to the Fair City is “the biggest employment opportunity in Perth in years.” The Conservative leader was ecstatic to secure a deal with Thermo Fisher Scientific to help meet the global demand for COVID-19 tests.
The American company is expanding its Inveralmond site to allow the manufacturing of eight million sample collection tubes a week. Two per cent pay rise for lecturers welcomed following agreement The Perth production will be in addition to the eight million tubes manufactured per week at Thermo Fisher’s new site across the Atlantic in Lenexa, Kansas, USA.