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In order to “increase the company’s competitiveness in the diverse global mobile device market,” Nokia is moving device assembly work to their factories in Asia, cutting around 4000 jobs in their manufacturing operations in Europe and Mexico.
The facilities in Salo (Finland), Komarom (Hungary), and Reynosa (Mexico) will be downsized by that number, and repurposed to work on providing “smartphone product customization.” Whatever that means. Nokia has promised to provide a support program to help those employees find a job, and layoffs will occur on a rolling basis till the end of the year.
Sad news for folks working in those plants, especially ones in the Finland plant who might feel alienated by their home brand now. The Salo facility first started operations in 1979, Reynosa in 1996, and Komarom in 1999. Decades of importance in the mobile device world, now coming to an end.
But there’s no denying, that in order to stay competitive, Nokia would be wrong not to move their manufacturing to Asia, considering most component makers are in China, Taiwan or nearby. Labor is also a lot cheaper, which would make sense financially. Most of Nokia’s production facilities are already based in India and parts of Asia.
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