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 Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Computer, Electronic And Optical Products 26.5 - Manufacture of instruments and appliances for measuring, testing and navigation; watches and clocks
New offshoring locations
Poland
0 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
20 January 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
ABB Composites, a branch of the multinational robotics and automation company ABB, has given notice to 110 employees at its site in Öjebyn in Sweden after a decision to close the site in 2015. Part of the production will be moved to Lodz in Poland instead. The site currently employs around 120 people.
The ABB group employs a total of 9,200 people in Sweden at 30 different sites.
Update 2015-10-23: ABB Composites has withdrawn plans to reduce its workforce in Öjebyn, Sweden, and is no longer planning to transfer production to Poland. The company says staff requirements at the plant will remain at the current size of 120 for the foreseeable future.
Sources
20 January 2015: processnet
15 October 2015: industrinyheter.se
Citation
Eurofound (2015), ABB Composites, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Sweden, factsheet number 78162, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78162.
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