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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Wood And Paper Materials Manufacture Of Paper And Paper Products 17.21 - Manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard and of containers of paper and paperboard
230 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
12 May 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
SIG Combibloc, a Swiss supplier of carton packaging and filling machines for beverages and food, announced plans to cut 230 jobs at its site in Linnich (North Rhine-Westphalia) by the end of 2018. Redundancies will mostly affect workers in the production. Job cuts have become necessary due to increasing costs for energy, resources and wages in Europe. Moreover, competition is becoming increasingly fierce in the packaging industry as several new providers entered the market. Additionally, the business market remains static in Europe. To become more competitive, the company initiated a programme called “Production 2.0”. Therefore, SIG Combibloc will invest 30 to 40 million Euro in servicing and optimisation of European plants. The aim is to modernise, streamline and speed up production. To optimise internal service processes, a so-called “Shared Service Centre” will be established in Cluj (Romania). Hereinafter 80 jobs will be redundant in Linnich. These jobs will be transferred to Romania gradually between the second half of 2016 and 2017.
The executive board and the works’ council will negotiate severance packages in the upcoming weeks. The management emphasises the importance of socially acceptable redundancies and will provide transition and other supporting measures.
SIG Combibloc, headquartered in Neuhausen am Rheinfall (Switzerland), currently employs 5,000 staff worldwide.
Sources
12 May 2016: WDR (online)
12 May 2016: Radio Rur
Citation
Eurofound (2016), SIG Combibloc, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 87519, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87519.
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