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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
80 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 November 2014
Employment effect (start)
30 November 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
German manufacturer of printing machines Heidelberger Druckmaschinen is to cut 80 out of 580 jobs within the next months. Most of the job cuts will be carried out by March 2015.
The company will try to avoid operational dismissals by focusing on voluntary leave, part-time and partial retirement. According to a spokesman, there are too many employees for a market development which is expected to be stable only in the best case scenario.
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen is the world market leader in the production of sheet offset printing machines and employs around 13,000 people in total.
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