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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
50 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
11 December 2018
Employment effect (start)
15 December 2018
Foreseen end date
24 July 2019
Description
The Fideve group, which owns five industrial sheet metal companies in France, announced the closure of a unit of its Atos subsidiary at Carros (Alpes Maritime) in mid-2019. The Carros site manufactures bays and boxes for electronic cards for companies in the data centre, transport, defence and energy sectors. The Fideve group, which employs 500 people, offered Carros employees reclassifications in its Lisieux and Strasbourg units. But this proposal has been largely rejected by the employees concerned for family reasons. To justify the closure of the site, Fideve points out that the unit has been in deficit since 2017. The market for racks for electronic cabinets is declining. Customers prefer to import much cheaper products, manufactured in countries where labour costs are lower than in France. In addition, according to Fideve, the production facility in Carros has become obsolete.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Fideve, Closure in France, factsheet number 96184, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96184.
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