DAF Trucks

Type
Internal restructuring
Country
Netherlands
Region
Zuid-Nederland; Noord-Brabant; Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant
Location of affected unit(s)
Eindhoven, Oevel
Sector
Manufacturing
(29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment
29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
150 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
12 June 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2019
Foreseen end date

Description

DAF, a Dutch truck manufacturing company, is lowering their truck production for the third time this year. Starting on the first of July, the production of trucks will decrease from 220 to 200 trucks each day. As a consequence 150 agency workers are no longer going to be employed by DAF in Eindhoven and 135 in Oevel. 

DAF states that the production decline is due to the economic uncertainty in Europe, which causes transport operators to delay the purchase of new trucks. 

DAF produces trucks in Eindhoven and in Leyland in the UK, while the factory in Oevel / Westerlo makes axles and cabins.

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2019), DAF Trucks, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 97999, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/97999.