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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
400 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
23 May 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2020
Foreseen end date
31 December 2020
Description
The German automobile steering system manufacturer Knorr-Bremse SteeringSystems will be closing its plant in Wuelfrath in 2020, which will result in the loss of 400 jobs. While management and those responsible are very tight lipped on details regarding the closure, employees, the German Metalworkers’ Union (IG Metall) and the city of Wülfrath feel betrayed. When Knorr-Bremse took over the plant in 2016, a promise was made to invest and secure the future of the plant. IG Metall claims that Knorr-Bremse never intended to invest into the Wülfrath plant – instead Knorr-Bremse bought a market access to steering systems, to use this know-how to produce more profits in Asia.
Knorr-Bremse has 28,452 employees worldwide.
Sources
23 May 2019: Rheinische Post (online) (rp-online.de)
Eurofound (2019), Knorr-Bremse SteeringSystems, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 98155, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98155.
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