Overview
- The decision places 640 jobs at risk at Reemtsma’s last manufacturing site in Germany near Hannover.
- Management has launched formal talks with the works council, with a conclusion targeted in the coming months.
- The company frames the move within its strategy to streamline its manufacturing network through 2030.
- The Langenhagen facility, operating since 1971, makes factory cigarettes, fine-cut tobacco and tobacco sticks for heated devices.
- The NGG union vows resistance, warns of possible shifts abroad and says a sale would not save all jobs, pointing to remaining Reemtsma plants in Poland.