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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products And Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products 22.11 - Manufacture of rubber tyres and tubes; retreading and rebuilding of rubber tyres
New offshoring locations
Germany
190 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
15 June 2009
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2009
Foreseen end date
Description
Rubber manufacturing machines and tyres producer, Continental Matador Rubber Company , is to dismiss 190 out its 2100 employees in Puchov, from September 2009. According to the Continental AG press release, redundancy is caused by centralisation of the production of specialised machines for rubber manufacturing in Germany.
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