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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.12 - Building Of Pleasure And Sporting Boats
No information on job gains number available
Announcement Date
20 July 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
SeaBird Designs is a Norvegian company founded in 2006 that offers kajak. Until 2016, the company production has been offshored in its plant in China; however, it experienced several quality concerns. Therefore, in 2017, it relocated manufacturing activities in a new highly automated plant in Østfold (Norway). In addition to solving quality problem, the backshoring decision permitted to improve production efficiency of production and to increase customer proximity.
Eurofound (2017), SeaBird, Reshoring in Norway, factsheet number 50, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/50.
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