Overview

• Roughly 300 employees were released from duties with immediate effect, including apprentices, according to IG Metall Bayern.
• Insolvency administrator Jochen Zaremba said a sale failed because the site and machinery were owned outside the insolvent company and price expectations did not align with bidders.
• IG Metall Bayern leader Horst Ott called the closure a scandal and urged rapid support from policymakers and those responsible, arguing workers had made sacrifices to keep the plant running.
• The works council and the insolvency administrator are negotiating a social plan that will determine severance arrangements before layoffs are issued.
• The plant’s collapse follows insolvencies in 2022 and March 2024 and a short-lived 2024 investor that also went bankrupt, with local officials warning of broader regional fallout for suppliers and jobs.