Plansee announced the closure of the site in Liezen, Styria, two years ago, and the last wire will be produced in December after 40 years. The factory property has already been sold.
In the future, the company will focus on processing a few hard metals at the Austrian main site in Reutte in Tyrol: “We are so successful there that we wanted to further strengthen these areas,” says company spokesman Dénes Széchényi.Property sold to project developerThe wire production would be a buyer in continue in the USA, products made of niobium are now manufactured in Tyrol. “It will finally be over in June next year,” reveals site manager Alfred Voiticek. In that six-month period, facilities will be dismantled and offices cleared. And after that? The 1.6 hectare property was sold in July to a project developer who works for trading companies. What exactly will happen and when is still open. Voiticek assumes that the plant will be demolished: “Until then, it may still be used as a storage area or something similar.” Currently only 24 employees At the moment there are only 24 employees left, 36 have already had to leave. But many of them already have a new job and are now retired; a few are being trained at the company’s expense.Voiticek: “At the moment it looks like we’re accommodating everyone.”
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