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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
209 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 January 2009
Employment effect (start)
22 January 2009
Foreseen end date
22 July 2009
Description
BT products, producer of warehouse trucks, gave notice to 209 employees in Mjölby. Out of the 209 reductioins, 168 are dismissals and the remaining 41 are either normal retirements or other agreements which included economic compensation for voluntary separations.
The BT Products factory in Sweden is one of the largest warehouse truck manufacturing facilities in the world with a workforce of 1,500 employees. Their product development & manufacturing ranges from hand pallet trucks to powered pallet trucks, stackers and reach trucks.
Sources
23 January 2009: Dagens Industri
23 January 2009: Svenska Dagbladet
Citation
Eurofound (2009), BT Products, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 68733, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68733.
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