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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28.9 - Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery
270 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
15 November 2014
Employment effect (start)
15 November 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
Bilfinger Pipeline Technologies (BPT), a German manufacturer of high-pressure pipelines for power plants, is to cut around 270 jobs. The company has set up a social plan according to which employees will be offered to change to a transfer agency for the period of one year.
According to the company, the main reason for the job reduction is the current focus on renewable energy in German politics which results in the fact that the construction of new power plants is no longer subsidised.
BPT employs around 1,300 people in several plants and belongs to Bilfinger Power Systems which forms one of the five segments of German construction company Bilfinger.
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