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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products And Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products Manufacture Of Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products 23.19 - Manufacture and processing of other glass, including technical glassware
New offshoring locations
Poland
50 - 54 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
20 January 2015
Employment effect (start)
20 January 2015
Foreseen end date
30 June 2015
Description
Salamander, German manufacturer of windows and doors, announced its plan to reduce its workforce by 50-54 positions in its Papenburg site. The company currently employs a total of 250 staff at this location. The job reduction will be affected by June 2015.
The company is planning to relocate the production of window profiles to Poland. According to the company production in Germany is no longer profitable. The job reduction shall be implemented in a socially accepted manner and severance payments will be offered.
The Salamander group currently employs 1,200 people in total and has recently run a turnover of €200 million. For Papenburg, an annual turnover of €30 million is forcasted. Salamander had already cut 80 jobs in 2013.
Sources
20 January 2015: General-Anzeiger Online
22 January 2015: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Online
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Salamander, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 78183, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78183.
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