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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Chemicals And Chemical Products 20.59 - Manufacture of other chemical products n.e.c.
167 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
28 February 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2008
Foreseen end date
1 March 2010
Description
Agfa Gevaert, which specialises in graphical and medical imagery techniques, has announced a cut of up to 167 workers at their site in Mortsel, Antwerp. This decrease is directly due to the announcement of the losses for 2007. These losses are assessed to an amount of 27 million euro. According to the management, the turnover suffered from the high cost of the euro and from the slowdown of the US economy that caused increasing costs for raw materials.
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