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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Manufacture Of Furniture 31.01 - Manufacture of office and shop furniture
New offshoring locations
Spain, Czechia, France
230 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
19 June 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
The office furniture company Steelcase announced plans to close its factory in Wisches (Alsace) which employs 230 workers and about 70 temporary workers. The activities will be transfered to three sites in Madrid (Spain), in Stribro (Czech Republic) and in Sarrebourg (France) that will be the last manufacturing plant in France.
There is currently no information on the closing schedule however the main production line is expected to close by the end of the year. In 2010, Steelcase has closed a plant in Alsace (202 employees) with a transfer of employees to the site of Wisches.
As announced the closure is linked with the decrease of demand in Europe. According to the compamy HR manager, Steelcase uses only 45% of the capacities of its sites in Wisches and Madrid.
Sources
26 June 2014: Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace
27 June 2014: Les Echos
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Steelcase, Offshoring/Delocalisation in France, factsheet number 77243, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77243.
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