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. 28.13 - Manufacture of other pumps and compressors
New offshoring locations
Slovakia
360 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
25 February 2014
Employment effect (start)
30 April 2014
Foreseen end date
30 September 2014
Description
Secop Kompresorji, manufacturer of compressors located in Crnomelj (Jugovzhodna Slovenija), is offshoring its production to Slovakia, dismissing all of its 360 staff.
The company has been in receivership since the beginning of 2014. Secop Kompresorji currently employs 360 staff of whom 80 employees will be laid off the end of April, another 170 by the end of June and the last 110 by the end of September 2014.
The company is owned by German Aurelius. In 2011, the ERM reported on a previous case of offshoring at the same plant that employed about 950 staff at the time.
Sources
25 February 2014: Radio Antena
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Secop Kompresorji, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Slovenia, factsheet number 76645, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76645.
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