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Manufacturing (29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment 29.3 - Manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories 29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles
New offshoring locations
Turkey
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
5 May 2015
Employment effect (start)
30 September 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
Odelo, a German producer of light emitting diodes for automotive rear lights and mirror indicators, will move its electronics production from Kamp-Lintfort to Istanbul by the end of September 2015. The closure of the plant in Kamp-Lintfort will affect 100 members of the staff. Around 50 jobs in Odelo LED's injection moulding department will remain in Kamp-Lintfort until the end of 2016. Odelo was acquired in 2011 by Bayraktarlar Group, and had begun to establish a LED production in Istanbul in autumn 2014.
Sources
5 May 2015: RP Online
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Odelo, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 83097, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/83097.