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 Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 May 2012
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Lanxess will restructure its fine chemicals subsidiary Saltigo. In Germany, about 200 jobs will be cut at Saltigo, 180 of them in Leverkusen. In the US, the facility in Redmond will be closed down. Lanxess, however, stresses that the reduction of jobs will not be reached by forced redundancies.
Due to an increasingly challenging business environment for pharmaceutical production, the company has decided to focus on its core business of agro-chemical products.
Sources
10 May 2012: Rheinische Post
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Saltigo, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 73776, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73776.
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