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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Wearing Apparel 14 - Manufacture of wearing apparel
235 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
5 June 2020
Employment effect (start)
5 June 2020
Foreseen end date
31 December 2020
Description
German company Dr Bock Industries recently announced that due to COVID-19 and resulting decline in orders they would close down the RHM Pants factory in Estelnic (County Covasna). Around 235 employees will be dismissed by collective redundancy.
A representative of the company said, “the Management Board and the Supervisory Board have decided to close the RHM Pants plant in Eastern Romania, as losses cannot be offset by short-term measures and no short-term market recovery is expected.”
RHM Pants was founded in 1992 and is one of Romania's largest producers of trousers. The company has other three factories in Romania at Sfantul Gheorghe and Baraolt (Covasna County) as well as factories in Germany, Italy, Bulgaria and the Ukraine.
Dr. Bock Industries was founded in 1984 and is a supplier for famous clothing brands.
Eurofound (2020), RHM Pants, Closure in Romania, factsheet number 100934, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/100934.
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