London (CNN Business) Ford has announced plans to close an engine plant in Wales, dealing yet another blow to a UK industry that is being ravaged by weak car sales and uncertainty over Brexit.

The US automaker said it would shutter its plant in Bridgend by September 2020, when a contract to supply engines to Jaguar Land Rover ends. Some 1,700 people work at the factory.

In January, the carmaker said that crashing out of the bloc would cost it $800 million in 2019.

"Ford have been quite clear that Brexit uncertainty raises big issues concerning their future in the United Kingdom," said David Bailey, a professor at Birmingham Business School.

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