Overview

• Azucarera will consolidate sugar beet milling at its Toro (Zamora) site and cease production in La Bañeza (León) while converting Miranda de Ebro (Burgos) into a refinery.
• The company filed an Employment Regulation File that will affect 251 employees across production centers and offices, representing 26.6% of its 944-strong workforce.
• Executives cited high operational costs, volatile global sugar prices and declining beet yields due to agrochemical restrictions as the rationale for the restructuring.
• The planned La Bañeza closure threatens 153 direct jobs and around 1,000 linked positions, prompting the town’s mayor to brand the move a “disaster.”
• Unions UGT FICA Cádiz and CCOO have rejected the ERE and local municipalities and agricultural organizations have mobilized against the plan.