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 Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
16 January 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 March 2009
Description
Fabryka Maszyn Górniczych PIOMA, a producer of mining machines, is to dismiss 300 people (out of a total workforce of 520) at its factory in Piotrków Trybunalski by the end of March 2009. The company is one of the largest European producers of mining machines, including belt conveyors, suspended monorails floor railways, as well as devices and machines used, among others, in open-pit mining and maritime industries, output of mineral resources, crude oil and natural gas.
Sources
16 January 2009: Gazeta Wyborcza
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Fabryka Maszyn Górniczych PIOMA, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 67805, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67805.
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