Overview

• Nolte Möbel, a Germersheim-based furniture manufacturer, will completely shut down operations by July 2025, with all remaining 230 employees set to be laid off.
• The company, once the district's second-largest employer, filed for insolvency in late 2023 and began formal proceedings in February 2024.
• Business performance deteriorated sharply in early 2025, with the insolvency administrator describing April's results as catastrophic, sealing the company's fate.
• Remaining employees are completing existing orders under a court-mandated social plan, ensuring wages until the final closure.
• The closure does not impact the Nolte Group’s kitchen division, Nolte Küchen, which continues to operate separately.