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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
42 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 October 2012
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
American owned Haldex Brake Products, manufacturer of vehicle parts, has announced that it is to cut 42 jobs in Landskrona. The lay-offs are to adjust the company's cost structure to declining demand. Haldex Brake Products currently has 260 employees in Landskrona.
Haldex, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a supplier of the global vehicle industry. The Haldex Group currently has approximately 2,350 employees at ten production plants worldwide.
As of October 2012 it is not yet known when the downsizing will be implemented by.
Sources
22 October 2012: Dagens Arbete
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Haldex Brake Products, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 74365, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74365.
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