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Enics Starts Actions to Improve Overall Competitiveness in Raahe Factory
March 15, 2017 | EnicsEstimated reading time: 1 minute
Enics Raahe Oy has started a legal co-operative negotiation process with Raahe factory employees on March 15, 2017. Negotiation period will last at least six weeks.
"The main target for the process is to improve overall competitiveness, financial performance and customer satisfaction in long-term. Therefore we will start to negotiate with the employees of our Raahe factory according to the Finnish legislation and union agreements to find the measures to reach those targets," comments Mikko Lassas, Managing Director of Enics Raahe Oy. "Based on our initial plans those measures could be a possible restructuring of the organization, change of the business model or possible closing down the factory entirely or partially and transferring business to other Enics locations. We believe that together with our employees we will find a way to serve our customers in a best possible way."
About Enics
Enics is the partner of choice for professional electronics in the fields of energy, industrial automation, transportation, building automation and instrumentation. As one of the largest electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers in the world in the Industrial Electronics segment. Enics helps industrial OEMs to optimize their value chains and improve their competitiveness through increased productivity and product reliability as well as decreased time-to-money and total cost of ownership. Enics provides end-to-end EMS services ranging from engineering, full-scale manufacturing and after sales services to sourcing and supply chain management. Enics’ world-class offering includes fast prototyping, new product introduction, cost reduction services, test system development, printed circuit board assembly, box build, system assembly, as well as repair and maintenance. For more information, please visit www.enics.com.
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