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Manufacturing (32) Other manufacturing 32 - Other manufacturing 32 - Other manufacturing
New offshoring locations
Slovakia
500 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
4 March 2005
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2005
Foreseen end date
1 April 2007
Description
Unomedical, producing medical instruments, decided in March 2005 to relocate parts of the production from Zealand, Denmark, to countries with lower wages. Two of four factories are closed and 500 employees will be made redundant by 2007. The production at the Hårlev factory with 300 employees and at the Vassingerød factory (150 employees) will be moved to a new factory in Slovakia.
Sources
4 March 2005: Politiken
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Unomedical, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Denmark, factsheet number 61323, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/61323.