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.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
New offshoring locations
Hungary
300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
6 January 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Computer maker Sanmina-SCI has announced plans to close its manufacturing site in Greenock. Almost 300 people will lose their jobs as a result of the move. About 650 workers were transferred from IBM to American-owned Sanmina three years ago in an outsourcing deal. Since then, the numbers employed at the plant have fallen gradually as Sanmina moved more of its server manufacturing work to Hungary. Sanmina was one of the firms which picked up the work when IBM decided to move out of the increasingly cut throat business of manufacturing.
Sources
6 January 2006: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Sanmina-SCI, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 62773, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62773.
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