Jobs to go at manroland

The world’s second biggest press manufacturer is trimming some 515 jobs in indirect functions in the sheetfed press business sector and 110 jobs in indirect functions in the web press business sector over the years 2009 and 2010.

In addition it will close its Mainhausen factory, and integrate the product lines assembled there into the main sheetfed press factory in Offenbach. The company’s other factories are in Augsburg and Plauen.

The company says it has been seriously affected by the reluctance of customers to invest due to the financial crisis and recession. The Group’s order intake in the 2008 fiscal year declined by around 20 per cent compared with the previous year. However, manroland still managed a positive operating result in the 2008 fiscal year. The company is owned 70 per cent by Allianz and 30 per cent by the MAN Group.

Manroland says it has already reacted in ‘good time’ to the economic downturn following the declining order intake since July 2008 in the sheetfed printing systems sector, and introduced short-time working on October 1, 2008 – for both production and administration – at the Offenbach and Mainhausen locations. Due to the ongoing decline in orders, short-time working has been extended and will also start for the Augsburg web press operations in March 2009.

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