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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
Uknown
650 - 950 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 June 2022
Employment effect (start)
22 June 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2024
Description
Kostal, a German automotive supplier, has announced up to 950 job cuts at its sites in Lüdenscheid, Meinerzhagen and Halvar, Germany.
The job cuts are due to restructuring measures. Production at the German sites in Lüdenscheid (around 650 employees), Meinerzhagen (around 90 employees) and Halver (around 50 employees) is to be phased out by the end of 2024 and relocated to other sites in Eastern Europe. The job cuts will not only affect about 800 jobs in production, but also about 150 jobs in administration. As of July 2022, it is not yet known when the job cuts will begin.
As part of an earlier restructuring measure, 330 jobs have already been cut in Lüdenscheid in 2019 (Kostal2019 - DE).
The Kostal Group employs around 18,000 people worldwide. Of the 18,000 employees, 3,200 are employed in Germany.
Eurofound (2022), Kostal, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 107109, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107109.
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