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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Textiles 13.9 - Manufacture of other textiles
New offshoring locations
Bosnia and Herzegovina
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
7 December 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
Eybl Austria, a supplier of textiles for the automotive industry, is relocating its production to Bosnia, making up to 100 employees redundant. The production will be integrated into an existing site of the textile manufacturer Prevent Group, with headquarters in Slovenia, which took over Eybl in 2009. Affected employees have already been registered with the public employment service (AMS).
Sources
7 December 2016: Die Presse
6 December 2016: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Eybl Austria, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Austria, factsheet number 89643, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89643.
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