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 20.5 - Manufacture of other chemical products
78 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
13 October 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 March 2010
Description
The Kleve site of the chemical company National Starch will be closed by 31 March 2010.
In 2008, German group Henkel, a manufacturer of adhesives technologies, health and personal care products, acquired the Adhesives Technology Unit of US-based chemical company National Starch. Following Henkel's decision to close one out of four German sites, the Kleve plant will be shut by 31 March 2010. 130 jobs will be affected. According to the works council, 52 employees will be transferred to one of the remaining sites either at Munich, Dusseldorf or Porta Westfalica. Up to 70 employees are expected to accept being transferred to a job creation agency. The remaining workforce will retire or be dismissed.
Eurofound (2009), National Starch, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 69848, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69848.
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