A restructure at meat processor Vion’s Bavarian plants could see jobs go at two of its sites “in the long-term”.
The firm said it is making a “multi-million” euro investment in its Bavarian processing plants. Almost half of the investments will focus on the expansion of the slaughter- and cutting plant in Landshut, Bavaria. Processing capacity is expected to double to 21,000 pigs per week.
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In Vilshofen specialist pork slaughterhouse “millions more” will be invested to install equipment that will optimise processing efficiencies. Vion is also investing in the Waldkraiburg plant.
As a result of the investments “it is envisaged that in the long-term, the business locations at Straubing and Pfarrkirchen will close. It is also planned to close the beef processing plant at Leutkirch, with cattle being re-directed to the Buchloe and Crailsheim operations,” the firm said in a statement.
A spokesperson for Vion told just-food the closures are expected “in the middle of 2015”. They declined to share information about the number of job-cuts the firm may make.
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