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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
New offshoring locations
Romania
300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
6 April 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2022
Foreseen end date
Description
Car component supplier EKB has announced the relocation of its production plant from Braunau, Upper Austria, to Romania resulting in 300 job cuts. At the moment, 700 people are employed at the company's site in Braunau, whereof 300 production workers will be dismissed. The company spokesman named the inability to enlarge the production capacity at the current site as a reason for the relocation. The remaining parts of the company's site in Braunau will be converted to research and developement. A redundancy programme has been elaborated. There will be considerable support for the employees, the company has stated.
Eurofound (2022), EKB, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Austria, factsheet number 106674, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106674.
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