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Italian apparel manufacturer Dainese, (who also owns Mavet and AGV) is shutting down its Molvena, Italy plant, and moving the bulk of its production to Tunisia. The move is presumably to help lower costs to the Italian brand, as sales have slumpped during the industry-wide economic slowdown. It’s unclear whether Dainese will open a new factory in Tunisia, or add the capacity to one of its two factories already in the North African country.
Dainese employs about 500 workers in Tunisia, and will like to have to increase that number by it is going to layoff nearly 80 of its 250 workers back in Italy. Dainese will keep on a small workforce in Molvena, who will continue to fabricate the company’s top of the line leathers, which are mainly provided for riders like Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, and Max Biaggi.
Helping ease the firings, Dainese has agreed to invest 2,000 in re-training its terminated staff members for other jobs.*Molvena will retain Dainese’s R&D departments, which continue to work on the D-Air leathers that should be put into production at the end of this year.
Source:
Motociclismo.it
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