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
Thailand, Brazil, United States
160 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
26 September 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Purac, a manufacturer of lactic acid-based food products and a subsidiary of the CSM Group, is to cut 160 jobs in the Netherlands. Purac employs 480 within the Netherlands, and will ‘offshore’ part of its production to locations in Thailand, Brazil and the U.S. The decision to cut the jobs will lead to the closure of the firm’s Gorinchem site and the sale of the Ter Apelkanaal site. As of September 2007, there is no information on when the job losses will be implemented by.
Sources
27 September 2007: NRC Handelsblad
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Purac, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Netherlands, factsheet number 65856, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65856.
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