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 22.22 - Manufacture of plastic packing goods
New offshoring locations
Poland, Spain
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 September 2007
Employment effect (start)
10 September 2007
Foreseen end date
10 March 2008
Description
Amcor Flexibles, a firm that produces plastic film for the grocery sector, is to cut 100 jobs at its site in Lund. The firm currently employs 380 at Lund, and the jobs at Lund will be ‘offshored’ to locations in Poland and Spain. The decision to ‘offshore’ the jobs has been attributed to the need to specialize production further, rationalize the firms operations, and to take advantage of the lower wages in Poland and Spain. The job losses at Lund are due to be implemented between September 2007 and March 2008.
Sources
12 September 2007: Svenska Dagbladet
12 September 2007: Sds
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Amcor Flexibles, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Sweden, factsheet number 65952, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65952.
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