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 Rubber And Plastic Products And Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products 22 - Manufacture of rubber and plastic products
New offshoring locations
Not Available
230 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
28 September 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2008
Foreseen end date
Description
Durex, a firm that manufactures contraceptives and is a subsidiary of the British group SSL Healthcare Manufacturing, is to close its site in Rubí with the loss of 230 jobs. The Rubí site is due to close by the beginning of 2008, and production at the plant will be relocated to either India or Thailand. 75% of the firm’s employees at the Rubí plant are female. Management at Durex attributed the decision to close the Rubí site to a ‘loss of competitiveness’ in relation to other European firms.
Sources
27 September 2007: El País
27 September 2007: La Vanguardia
28 September 2007: ABC
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Durex, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Spain, factsheet number 65862, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65862.
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