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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
175 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 March 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2007
Foreseen end date
31 August 2007
Description
About 175 people are to lose their jobs at the Visteon car components plant near Swansea, the company announced on 30 March 2007. The factory makes axles and brake systems. Management said the job losses resulted from Ford's decision to close a foundry in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, which Visteon supplies with parts. The company also said that the plant would phase out production of brakes between now and the Ford summer shutdown. According to Visteon, the people losing their jobs would be temporary workers and those wanting voluntary redundancy while others would be transfered to different plants.
Sources
30 March 2007: BBC Website
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Visteon, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 65188, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65188.
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