A total of 95 staff have been retained to continue limited activity at the two sites while the administrators explore the possibility that the sites and assets could be sold.
He said that they were told that they were redundant, they exhausted every avenue they had to try to keep the place open.
It was no surprise to any of us to learn that the company was in trouble, that was what had been the case for a long time. Since 2019 we have had severe issues, and the management team has struggled to keep the operation going. The site has been here for 252 years, and an awful lot of the families that were here 252 years ago are still here.
It's a tragedy for Scotland and it's the end of an era, a large part of Aberdeen's history revolved around mills.
We are still trying to understand how this happened so quickly, and it really hasn't sunk in to a lot of our members. This will be a very uncertain time for the company's staff, their families and the local areas, which will be affected by this decision, it said.