Bombardier sweeps 1430 points – Derwesten.de

Berlin / Netphen. As part of the corporate restructuring of the train manufacturer Bombardier Transportation is planning an extensive job cuts – particularly in Germany. 1430 is currently around 10 000 jobs are to be lost, as Laurent Troger, President of the train manufacturer, said in Berlin. affected 3200 of the 39 700 jobs worldwide. Bombardier also maintains a factory in Netphen in the Siegerland.

The kind of locations exactly deleted, is not yet known. That it will make Berlin and Brandenburg, is very likely, the Group is among the largest employers in the region. The factory in Hennigsdorf is the largest in Germany. There now, employees worry about their jobs. In addition, in Berlin is the headquarters of the company. Details about the actual impact of the announced job cuts over the sites are also the general works hitherto unknown. , But fears that the plans now announced are just a “taste” of what was to be expected in this year.

Save anywhere

” We begin now until the discussions with the relevant employee representatives, “said Troger. However, it should specifically not intended to close a plant. It must be saved everywhere, even the administration was no exception. Probably the company will not employ many temporary workers, who are counted in the workforce, continue. Greatest German production site is occupied with 2800 employees, the plant in Hennigsdorf, in the headquarters at Schöneberger Ufer in Kreuzberg are about 600 employees. Bombardier also designs and builds in Germany nor in works in Görlitz, Bautzen, Braunschweig, Kassel and Mannheim.

The fact that the job cuts particularly Germany meets, Troger also explains the fact that Bombardier Germany here on in the past two years most staff have built. “This is now a normal capacity adjustment.”

Finally, it was not quite as round for the company: 2015 continued the Bombardier Transportation around 8.3 trillions of dollars, a drop of almost 14 percent compared to 2015 , order intake fell by almost a third. The order backlog decreased by two billion to 30.4 billion euros. The prestigious major order for the Berlin S-Bahn went to a consortium of Siemens and Stadler, the Rhine-Ruhr-Express is also supplied by Siemens.

Earlier world No. 1

Bombardier Transportation was to a new supplier of the largest train manufacturer in the world to the fusion of Chinese competitors. Troger still sees the company from the offer as number 1. The largest market is Europe. Here Troger hoped some orders in the near future -. Especially from Spain and the UK, where much is invested in railway infrastructure

While the Group, especially in Germany and Canada Post strikes, it builds up in other countries , such as India, Eastern Europe and Australia. Presumably, some 2,000 sites are newly created as Troger said.

Bombardier Transportation is majority owned by the Canadian company Bombardier, which also includes the aircraft manufacturer Bombardier Aerospace is who is deep in the red. To obtain fresh money for the renovation, Bombardier has sold 30 percent of last Zugsparte to the pension fund of Quebec. From Bombardier numerous local trains come in, the German railway network.

Björn Hartmann