Electronics Weekly
“The management and works council have now reached an agreement on a reconciliation of
interests and a social plan, which was presented to the affected employees at a works meeting on Thursday, February 6, 2025,” according to the company. “After the closure was announced,
companies from the region and neighboring Switzerland contacted us with job offers for the employees in Schopfheim. Würth Elektronik used the contact for an internal job exchange. To date, almost all trainees and around 50 employees have been placed.”
Products previously manufactured in Schopfheim will be produced at other Würth Elektronik locations in Germany.
“The production sites in Niedernhall and Rot-am-See will focus on industries and applications whose more complex and individual printed circuit boards are manufactured in Europe for strategic reasons,” said Wurth, which attrubutes the need to close Schopfheim to “the current worst crisis in the history of the PCB industry in Europe, with a dramatic slump in incoming orders”.
The company promises that comprehensive PCB-related services will be retained.
“Consolidation of the production sites enables stable capacity utilisation at the other plants in Germany and a focus on an economically sound future for Würth Elektronik Circuit Board Technology”, is said.
Founded in 1971, Würth Elektronik Circuit Board Technology has 1,000 employees, and claims 4,000 customers and an annual turnover in the “three-digit million range”. Production is now at three German sites, and at partners in Asia.
