Type
Offshoring/Delocalisation
Country
United Kingdom
Region
South West; Devon; Devon CC
Location of affected unit(s)
Paignton
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products
Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment
27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
New offshoring locations

150 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
6 December 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date

Description

Bookham Technology has announced the decision as part of its transfer of business to China. The decision means 150 jobs are to go at a fibre-optics plant in Paignton south Devon. The transfer from Paignton to China will take place over the next nine months. The 200 staff who will remain at the site will be focusing largely on research and development, the company said. In its heyday, when the plant was owned by Nortel Networks, almost 5,000 people were employed at the Paignton site. But by 2002, when Bookham Technology took over, 4,000 of those jobs had gone. In 2004, Bookham announced that it was shifting manufacturing to China and 600 jobs would go as a result.


Sources

  • 6 December 2005: BBC News

Citation

Eurofound (2005), Bookham Technology, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 62648, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62648.