Automation instead of jobs
Siemens closes Vienna plant
November 28th, 2024 – 8:35 p.m. Reading time: 1 min.
Siemens headquarters in Vienna (archive image): The management will remain in place, but other jobs will be automated away or relocated to Romania. (Source: Weingartner photo/imago-images-bilder)
178 employees will soon be without a job: Siemens is closing its power plant for industrial electricity in Vienna at the end of 2026. This is the third bad news in a row for Austria’s economy.
In order to keep up with international competition, the energy and industrial group Siemens is closing its Vienna factory for industrial power supplies by the end of 2026. 178 employees would then need a new job, write the news portal “oe24” and the Austria Press Agency, citing a company broadcast on Thursday. The company said there are currently only around a hundred open positions at Siemens in Austria.
It was also said that Siemens wanted to automate larger parts of its production and produce more in Romania. The management of the global business for industrial power supplies will remain in Vienna. This also applies to the research and development center and product and quality management. In total, around 9,300 people work for Siemens in Austria. In the 2023 financial year, sales were 3.2 billion euros.
It was only on Wednesday that the German automotive supplier Schaeffler announced that it would be closing its location in Berndorf, Austria, where wheel bearings, wheel hub modules and transmission bearings are currently being manufactured. This particularly applies to products for trucks, tractors and construction machinery. You can read more about the Schaeffler closure here.
