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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
62 - 90 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
24 February 2023
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2023
Foreseen end date
31 December 2024
Description
VCST, a producer of automobile parts, has announced it will be dismissing a significant part of its personnel (ca. 62 employees) within the facility of Sint-Truiden. The main reasoning behind the effort is the fact that a number of large automobile clients of the factory have announced to reduce their production in combustion powered vehicles. This leads to a reduction in demand for parts produced at the facility. The facility has already seen significant layoffs in the past due to reduced demand and has also been also confronted with the fallback of the pandemic.
Eurofound (2023), VCST, Internal restructuring in Belgium, factsheet number 108645, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/108645.
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