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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.20 - Manufacture of bodies (coachwork) for motor vehicles; manufacture of trailers and semi-trailers
116 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
23 September 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Austrian steel producer Voestalpine is reducing by 116 jobs the workforce at its subsidiary company Voestalpine Automotive Components in Bunschoten, the Netherlands. At the Bunschoten plant, the company makes bodywork parts for BMW, Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz. Currently around 1,000 people are working in Bunschoten,the job cuts will take the form of redundancies. The steel producer is experiencing issues due to the crisis in the (German) automotive industry, leading to a lower demand of bodywork parts.
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