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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Computer, Electronic And Optical Products 26.6 - Manufacture of irradiation, electromedical and electrotherapeutic equipment
New offshoring locations
Mexico
300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
7 November 2011
Employment effect (start)
31 May 2012
Foreseen end date
Description
Medtronic, a company operating in the sector of medical device technologies, announced plans to cut 300 jobs at its Brescia site.
Medtronic employs 580 people in Brescia, Milano. In March 2012, 120 jobs were lost due to gradual reduction of production of medical coronal devices. In May 2013 it will relocate an assembly unit to Mexico which will result in additional loss of 180 jobs.
According to Medtronic, the Brescia site will now be a research and development centre for complex medical technologies in the sector of Peripheral Vascular Disease.
Medtronic is negotiating the restructuring process with the trade unions. The process is due to be completed by July 2013.
Sources
7 November 2011: Il corriere della sera
13 September 2012: Il Sole 24 Ore
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Medtronic, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Italy, factsheet number 74174, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74174.
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