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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
410 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 June 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2020
Description
The German engineering firm Bosch will lower the workforce of its plant in Tienen, Belgium, by 410 by 2020 (280 white collar workers, 130 blue collar workers). The factory, which currently employs 1,060 people, makes wind-screen wiper parts. Bosch explained the move by saying that it is suffering from competition and pricing pressure. As a result conventional windscreen wiper production in the Belgian factory is no longer viable. Bosch said it will invest more in the production of the new generation of windscreen wipers in Tienen though.
Eurofound (2014), Robert Bosch Produktie, Internal restructuring in Belgium, factsheet number 77300, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77300.
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