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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Chemicals And Chemical Products 20.59 - Manufacture of other chemical products n.e.c.
89 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
5 April 2016
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The Japanese chemical technology firm Fujifilm, best known for its production of photographic film, has announced that 89 jobs will be lost at the Tilburg plant, where production mainly consists of photographic paper and offset plates. The job cuts are deemed necessary in light of the continuing fall in demand for both products, which has made the structural costs of production too high. Most jobs to be lost are blue-collar, factory-based positions, whereas 14 white-collar jobs will be lost because of centralisation of office activities in other parts of Europe. 60 employees are expected to be dismissed, 29 will be relocated to other parts of the company, and the remainder will be left to natural attrition. Fujifilm has been struggling to develop new products to offset the decline of analogue photography, which in 2006 led to the discontinuation of the production of film rolls in Tilburg and hundreds of job losses. Although new products are now being produced in Tilburg, such as synthetic gelatin and gas and water purification membranes, the drop in oil prices has negatively influenced the performance of the latter products.
Sources
5 April 2016: fd.nl
5 April 2016: Omroep Brabant
5 April 2016: Brabants Dagblad
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Fuji, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 87493, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87493.
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