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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Basic Metals 24 - Manufacture of basic metals
New offshoring locations
Not Available
50 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 April 2013
Employment effect (start)
27 April 2013
Foreseen end date
Description
Arkivator, a Swedish technology company, is to cut 50 jobs in Falköping, Sweden. In total, 45 blue-collar jobs and 5 white-collar jobs will be affected as part of the telecom production is relocated to Hungary. As of April 2013, there is no information about the timeline of the job cuts.
Arkivator is a manufacturer of products for telecom, machinery and vehicles and it has a total of 500 employees in Falköping, Tidaholm, Gothenburg, Växjö, Stockholm, Hungary, China and Ukraine.
For information on a previously announced restructuring see Arkivator-SE2008.
Sources
27 April 2013: Arkivator Press Release
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Arkivator, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Sweden, factsheet number 75170, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75170.
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