DuPont announces the closure of the Ruby and Polinyá plants in Spain
on March 20, 2006
The American
The enclosures of plants will llevar in the next 18 months and the company explained in a communiqué that "the greater possible quantity of employees will be relocated to other plants and functions inside the company". "In case that this reubicación was not possible, the employees will receive assistance of Dupont in concordance with the local practices of each country", ensures the company.
For the moment, Dupont has not specified how many places of work expects to delete in each one of the plants that will close. Together with the plants of Rubí and Polinyá, Dupont will close the Dutch factory of Breda and the laboratory Hellac in Germany.
The 1.500 dismissals announced add to the 200 that already had announced the company in February, product of the closing of a laboratory in Michigan, U.S., and are part of a general plan of reorganisation that has like aim orient his operations to the markets and businesses more profitable. "This plan of transformation is designed no only to improve the health of these businesses in the short term, but to ensure his growth and his future", signals Dupont in the communiqué. The places of work that will be reduced correspond to available tasks and promotion, technical positions, manufactureras and administrative.
Like part of the program of reorganisation, the company signalled that it has opened new plants in Japan, China and Brazil, that has taken the control of societies in Mexico and Poland and that has created new companies associated in Russia.
