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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles
New offshoring locations
Poland
300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
19 March 2013
Employment effect (start)
19 March 2013
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
US-based automotive supplier TRW Automotive will close its site in St. Leon-Rot (Germany). The plant produces airbags and employs 300 people. TRW Automotive will relocate the production of the German plant to Poland and other unspecified countries. Worldwide, TRW employs 70,000 people. For previously reported restructuring events in TRW Automotive please see TRW-FR2013, TRW-IT2012, TRW-PO2012a, TRW-PO2012b, TRW-CZ2008, TRW-AU2008, TRW-UK2006, TRW-SK2006, TRW-UK2005a, TRW-UK2005b, TRW-ES2005, TRW-PO2004 and TRW Case study 2004.
Sources
19 March 2013: Mannheimer Morgen (online)
Citation
Eurofound (2013), TRW Automotive, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 75188, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75188.
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