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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25 - Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment
140 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
18 June 2024
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
1 January 2027
Description
The Belgian materials group Umicore has announced that it will cut 140 jobs at its site in Hanau, Hesse.
The reason for the job cuts is the transition to electromobility, which requires the Automotive Catalysts business unit to adapt to changing market conditions. The company plans to cut around 140 jobs, or 14 percent of the workforce, at the Hanau site by 2027. These plans include voluntary programmes that have been developed in close cooperation with employee representatives in order to make the job cuts socially responsible.
Hanau is Umicore's largest German site with around 900 employees, where products containing precious and special metals are developed. In Germany, Umicore has over 1,700 employees at five locations and nine business units. Worldwide, Umicore has 1,948 employees at 45 production sites and 14 research and development sites.
18 June 2024: Frankfurter Allgemeine (online) (www.faz.net)
Citation
Eurofound (2024), Umicore, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 201337, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201337.
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