Overview
- Thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering will shut its Chemnitz and Hohenstein-Ernstthal sites, with the closure completed by mid-2026.
- The Saxony operations build equipment for battery assembly in the automotive industry, a market the company says no longer provides sufficient orders.
- Management described the locations as being in a critical economic situation because large contracts needed to sustain operations are not available.
- A recently lost major order leaves no comparable projects in view for the coming years, according to managing director Rolf-Günther Nieberding.
- IG Metall called the decision a black day for the region and urged social responsibility from the company, noting a hard blow for apprentices after workers demonstrated last week.