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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
492 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
6 June 2013
Employment effect (start)
30 June 2013
Foreseen end date
31 December 2014
Description
Automotive parts manufacturer Decoma Belplas, part of the Canadian group Decoma International, is to close its plant in Genk by the end of 2014 and make 492 people redundant. Among them, there are 260 white-collar workers, 62 blue-collar workers and 170 temporary workers. According to the management, the company is not profitable anymore and the Canadian headquarters have already injected a lot of money during the previous years. The 'Renault procedure' will be launched in the next few days.
Sources
6 June 2013: l'avenir.net
7 June 2013: L'Echo
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Decoma Belplas, Closure in Belgium, factsheet number 75493, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75493.
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