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St. Beauzire (France), Swords (Ireland), Hopkinton (US)
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Chemicals And Chemical Products 20 - Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products
New offshoring locations
United States of America
250 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
25 July 2013
Employment effect (start)
25 July 2013
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
Swiss-based Lonza Group, a biotechnology company supplier to pharmaceutical, healthcare and life science industries is to cut 250 FTE jobs by the end of 2013.
The job reductions will result from the closure of two plants, one in St. Beauzire, France and one in Swords, Ireland. The remainder of the job cuts will be carried out at Lonza’s site in Hopkinton, USA.
As announced the restructuring is due to a cost saving plan and the company plans to move part of its activities at its Visp site in Switzerland.
Lonza currently employs around 11,000 employees worldwide.
Sources
25 July 2013: Lonza (press release)
25 July 2013: Handelszeitung
26 July 2013: Boston Business Journal
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Lonza, Offshoring/Delocalisation in World, factsheet number 75784, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75784.
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