The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Chemicals And Chemical Products 20 - Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products
New offshoring locations
Poland
140 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
23 June 2004
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Caballito is specialised in abrasive chemical materials and is based in Vitoria (Álava). After an eight month strike of 140 of its 225 workers, the company has decided to relocate production to a new site in Poland. The company will continue activity in its plant in Vitoria for the 85 workers who did not follow the strike and will study a job reduction plan for the workers that followed the strike. The company Pferd Rüggeberg has invested 36 million euros in 2003 in its plant in Vitoria.
Sources
23 June 2004: La Gaceta de los Negocios
22 June 2004: El País
Citation
Eurofound (2004), Caballito, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Spain, factsheet number 60403, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60403.
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