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After 50 years of activity: the "Lehavim Technology" plant will be closed, hundreds of employees will be laid off Israel today

2022-12-04T13:50:27.153Z


In a letter sent to the employees, the CEO announced the cessation of operations starting in 2025 due to the large losses • Hundreds are expected to remain without work • The Histadrut declared a labor dispute • "Our goal - to find an alternative buyer"


900 workers are expected to be laid off:

the "Blade Technology" factory for the production of jet engine blades in Nahariya has announced that it will close after about 50 years due to growing losses.

The factory workers first received the news about the closure of the factory, which is expected to take place during the year 2025.

The company was founded by Steph Wertheimer and the Discount Investment Group in 1968, when the company owned another factory.

The company was sold in 2014 to the American Pratt & Whitney Corporation.



In a letter written to the company's employees by CEO Igor Karpovinski, it is written "Unfortunately, for a long time the plant has been accumulating significant losses that are growing.

The production processes that currently exist at BTL do not allow us to maintain productivity in a way that would be economically feasible, against the background of the decrease in demand for compressor blades."

"Therefore, after Pratt & Whitney made an assessment of the business needs and requirements, the management of Pratt & Whitney decided to end the production of compressor blades in Israel, in a process that will be completed during the year 2025," he explained.

"Unfortunately, the move will lead to the separation of most BTL employees in the next two years. The work at the ABR plant will continue and there is even an intention to expand it."

It is also written that the work in 2023 will continue without any change in the status of the workers.

Following the announcement of the Blade Technology Company (BTL) about the mass layoffs, the Histadrut announced that it will declare a labor dispute and will work to protect the livelihood and the employment future of the hundreds of workers in the company's plants in the north.

This, following the letter sent today by the company's CEO, Igor Karpovinski, to the employees, in which he informed them about a broad layoff that is expected at the company's plants in Israel.

"We will not allow such harm to hundreds of women and workers in the periphery," Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David, photo: Gideon Markovitch

The chairman of the Histadrut, Arnon Bar-David, said: "The Histadrut will not allow such a critical harm to hundreds of women and workers in the periphery.

We will use all the means at our disposal to protect the employment future of the employees.

We will not allow mass layoffs by waving hands and waving a letter that is sent like that in the middle of a working day, to the employees."

The chairman of the Western Galilee region of the Histadrut, Asher Shmueli, said: "This morning, the management of the plant informed the workers of the desire of the parent company, Pert & Whitney, to close the plant in Nahariya completely and to reduce the activity of the plant in Tefan during the years 2024-2025, and to fire 900 out of 1,400 workers and workers

Following this, I informed the management, together with the workers' committee, that the Histadrut would not negotiate the closing of the plant, but would work to preserve the activity of the important plant, which provides a livelihood for workers in the north.

"Our goal is for the company to find an alternative buyer who will operate the plant as a going concern," he explained.

"At the same time, we will announce a labor dispute in the company today. Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David is already involved in the issue.

The Histadrut will also work with the government ministries in this regard."

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Source: israelhayom

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