Steyr Tank: Wiener Werkstätte be stopped?
Radpanzer " Pandur "
Radpanzer " Pandur " / Image : Steyr
Following a massive job cuts the characters now stand on ceremony. The production of Radpanzers " Pandur " could move to Portugal.
25.10.2013 12:44 | | ( DiePresse.com )
At the Vienna tank builder Steyr is spoken in the negotiation of a social plan and a complete plant closure . "We are ruling nothing out," council chairman Manfred Bauer said Friday the APA. In addition to the massive staff cuts , in which three out of four jobs could be deleted from the site 'm also in Vienna -Simmering as "worst case " in the space. According to " courier " the signs point to a complete closure by the U.S. owner General Dynamics ( GD) . Accordingly, the Group laid the production of weapons Radpanzers " Pandur " for GD partners Fabrequipa to Portugal , the newspaper said , citing Portuguese media.
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There Fabrequipa said the owner Lusa Francisco Pita recently told " Expresso " , General Dynamics had given him machinery worth 2.5 million euros to complete the " Pandur " Tank - " from start to finish " - to build . In addition, he had signed agreements with GD and licenses so Fabrequipa could sell the " Pandur " in Asia and Africa. The doubts farmer . If Pandur armored should be built in Portugal, actually , Fabrequipa is dependent on the technology and the know- how from Vienna. " The then still need us ," Bauer said today . Against the shift to Portugal is also suggested that Fabrequipa is not a subsidiary of General Dynamics . However : this year a " hierarchy for sale" until June 2014 was anchored for the premises in Vienna -Simmering already .
" Disaster for the reputation"
The ordered 260 of the Portuguese army tanks are being bolted together from Fabrequipa , the high-tech components, but come from Vienna , said Bauer . A site closure would be a " disaster for the reputation" of the entire GD European Land Systems division . In Vienna, many minor repair and warranty work would be carried out , for the Austrian army . The Steyr- council negotiated with the management continues to have a social plan . Either objective or "this year" - even before the first dismissals - to be sliced the social plan .