11.16.06
As part of a consistent strategic and operative alignment, the Division Effect Pigments (ECKART Group) of ALTANA Chemie AG, Wesel, Germany, is concentrating on realizing synergy potentials and on improving the structures within the division. ECKART will be closing the production site for aluminum pastes at Porto Marghera near Venice, Italy at the end of 2006 and relocating production to the existing European sites.
ECKART has had four production sites for aluminum pastes: two in the Italian towns of Rivanazzano and Porto Marghera and two in Wackersdorf and Velden, Germany. Thirty-eight employees are affected, though a number of them will be offered jobs in other sites where possible. The closure of the Italian plant in Porto Marghera is a consequence of excess capacity in Europe and satisfies the adjustment measures required of the European operating sites of the Division Effect Pigments. The ECKART Group is thus concentrating on seven production sites globally, with another in China in the planning. The ALTANA Chemie Group has five sites in Italy: Ascoli Piceno, Quattordio, Collechio, Rivanazzano and Porto Marghera.
ECKART has had four production sites for aluminum pastes: two in the Italian towns of Rivanazzano and Porto Marghera and two in Wackersdorf and Velden, Germany. Thirty-eight employees are affected, though a number of them will be offered jobs in other sites where possible. The closure of the Italian plant in Porto Marghera is a consequence of excess capacity in Europe and satisfies the adjustment measures required of the European operating sites of the Division Effect Pigments. The ECKART Group is thus concentrating on seven production sites globally, with another in China in the planning. The ALTANA Chemie Group has five sites in Italy: Ascoli Piceno, Quattordio, Collechio, Rivanazzano and Porto Marghera.