Tonnies to cut 140 jobs
Tönnies has announced the closure of one of its export packaging departments for Asia, which is set to affect around 140 employees.
The department is at a Tönnies plant in Weißenfels, Saxony-Anhalt has been part of Tönnies group since 1990. The site is Tönnies’ second-largest slaughterhouse. The total workforce of this slaughterhouse is around 2,200 employees strong.
Export packaging will now take place at a plant in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, near Bielefeld.
In previous years, the German company exported pigs’ ears, snouts and tails to countries like China, Japan and South Korea from this export department. However, in September 2020, Asia placed an import ban on German pork after a case of African swine flu was reported in a wild boar in Spree-Neiße. Tönnies attributes this continuing export ban to the closure of its department.
“We had high hopes that exports to Korea and China would become possible again in the short term. However, the developments to-date are disappointing and make this step unavoidable at the moment,” the company said.
by Henry Mathieu | Just Food
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