Conti to close Traiskirchen site with the end of rubber mixing operations

ERJ staff report (DS)

Traiskirchen, Austria -- Seven years after closing tyre manufacture at the former Semperit plant in Traiskirchen in Austria, Continental has decided to finally close the site with the loss of 195 jobs.

Conti said yesterday that it will end rubber mixing operations at the site by the end of the year. It previously said it will close steel cord calendering operations there at the same time. The company said a few administrative jobs might remain. 

The company said its work support foundations, set up in 2002 when the company ended car and truck tyre manufacture in Traiskirchen are still in place and will support the remaining employees. At the time, Conti employed 300 in the mixing and calendering operations and said those operations, "will initially continue'.

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Press release from Conti (German language)

Press release from Conti auto-translated into English