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Vion eliminates pork from one of its processing plants

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Instead, the plant in Altenburg will focus on cattle starting the spring of 2020.

Posted on Nov 25 ,05:58

Vion will eliminate pork from its pork and beef processing plant in Altenburg and will focus on cattle, announced the company in a press release. The decision will be implemented in the first quarter of 2020. In recent years, pig production in East Germany and in the area served by Vion’s Altenburg site has been in continual decline. But the region shows great potential for growth in the area of beef due to the high density of cattle in East Germany. Vion has decided to expand and specialize its Altenburg site for this sector.

The new direction of Vion Altenburg is part of the strategy of Vion. In East Germany, there is no other processing site for cattle with the exception of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Further to this, transport times of cattle from producer to the meat processing plant can be reduced significantly due to the increased capacity by this specialization.

The site will see a reduction in its staff by around 110 employees. The company has informed its employees and their representatives and has immediately started discussions for a redundancy package.

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