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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Computer, Electronic And Optical Products 26.11 - Manufacture of electronic components
New offshoring locations
Denmark, Poland
207 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 June 2015
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Electronics manufacturer, Strömfors Electric, is closing its plant in Loviisa, Finland and will be moving its production abroad. Strömfors Electric belongs to multinational Schneider-Electric Group and the workers were offered positions at Schneider's plants in Denmark and Poland, an offer than only one of the 207 workers at Strömfors accepted.
Schneider Electric employs 170,000 people in more than 100 countries.
Sources
26 June 2015: Svenska YLE
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Strömfors Electric, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Finland, factsheet number 83919, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83919.
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