Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
The Heunisch Brno foundry, which employs about 200 people, is to cease production at the end of October 2025 due to the long-term negative developments for the European manufacturing industry. This is a decline in orders in the mechanical engineering sector, which is caused by many factors, not only high energy prices, but also tightening environmental standards for the operation of industrial enterprises associated with the European green policy.
For several years, the foundry faced criticism from people living nearby due to the smell from production. The pressure to reduce emissions has been enormous and possible solutions are very expensive and difficult to finance in the long term.
The Heunisch Brno Foundry has been operating at a loss of around ten million crowns since 2021.
The Brno factory is a subsidiary of a German HEUNISCH Foundry with headquarters in Bad Windsheim. They manufacture sophisticated parts from grey and nodular iron, as well as cast parts from aluminium alloys, for various various industrial sectors.
In 2022 the database recorded an expansion of Heunisch workforce of 100 employees (Heunisch - 2022 - CZ
Eurofound (2025), Slévárna Heunisch Brno, Closure in Czechia, factsheet number 202330, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/202330.
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