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24/04/2009
Textile Jobs Losses Revealed In Tralee
Two hundred and ten workers at a textile company in Tralee, Co Kerry, are to lose their jobs, it has emerged.
Workers at the Amann plant were called to a meeting with management today, where senior executives from the firm's parent company in Germany addressed employees.
They were told that operations will be wound down at the factory over the next 15 months and the staff will be laid off over that period.
It was previously announced in January that 120 of the existing jobs were to be transferred to other Amann group facilities in Romania and Germany.
Overall manufacturing costs as well as the ongoing recession was blamed for the cuts.
Amann was established in Tralee in 1998 after buying the former Klopman textile plant, in what was then a major jobs announcement.
The plant produces high quality technical sewing threads for the automotive, fashion and textile industries.
The news came at the same time as 70 jobs have been lost in a construction trade supplier in the North.
Spanboard in Co Londonderry announced the news about redundancies at the plant three months ago.
Today, some 70 posts will go at the plant which had been employing 105 people.
The Coleraine firm's Portuguese owners, Sonae, blamed the job losses on the downturn in the construction industry and rising costs of raw materials.
Problems remain across Europe, with news that Spanish unemployment has soared to four million in the first quarter of 2009, almost doubling in a year.
Authorities there said that the global recession has destroyed jobs more quickly than anywhere else in Europe.
(BMcC/JM)
Workers at the Amann plant were called to a meeting with management today, where senior executives from the firm's parent company in Germany addressed employees.
They were told that operations will be wound down at the factory over the next 15 months and the staff will be laid off over that period.
It was previously announced in January that 120 of the existing jobs were to be transferred to other Amann group facilities in Romania and Germany.
Overall manufacturing costs as well as the ongoing recession was blamed for the cuts.
Amann was established in Tralee in 1998 after buying the former Klopman textile plant, in what was then a major jobs announcement.
The plant produces high quality technical sewing threads for the automotive, fashion and textile industries.
The news came at the same time as 70 jobs have been lost in a construction trade supplier in the North.
Spanboard in Co Londonderry announced the news about redundancies at the plant three months ago.
Today, some 70 posts will go at the plant which had been employing 105 people.
The Coleraine firm's Portuguese owners, Sonae, blamed the job losses on the downturn in the construction industry and rising costs of raw materials.
Problems remain across Europe, with news that Spanish unemployment has soared to four million in the first quarter of 2009, almost doubling in a year.
Authorities there said that the global recession has destroyed jobs more quickly than anywhere else in Europe.
(BMcC/JM)
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