Koenig and Bauer (KBA), manufacturer of printing presses, is to cut up to 460 jobs in Moedling and Ternitz, Lower Austria. This is part of a European-wide restructuring programme that includes the transfer of the sheetfed offset press programme to the German plant of Radebeul, where it is to be concentrated. Trade unions worry that the downsizing will lead to the complete closure of the Austrian sites within the next years.
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