Nissan cuts 50 jobs from Victorian casting plant
January 29, 2009 by Matt Brogan
Nissan Australia has retrenched 50 workers at its aluminium casting plant in Dandenong South, Victoria, as orders for its engines and parts dry up.
The lay-offs, taking place yesterday and today, follow production cuts in Japan and the United States in the wake of the global economic crisis.
Nissan Australia spokesman Jeff Fisher said almost all the die-cast aluminium and transmission parts produced by the plant went overseas.
“Japan is cutting production and the US is down 35 per cent,” Mr Fisher said.
Nissan is offering retrenched workers counselling and assistance in finding new jobs.
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Arrrrrrh, so thats what the big NISSAN factory builds down @ Dandy!
Wonder which models use the Aussie built castings, and which other brands too?
Cheers
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frugal, i have the answer now for u. NONE, now anyway.
Geez, more job losses in Melbourne, this is not good. Everywhere you turn industry is laying off and especially in the car industry.
The unemployment queue’s are growing by the day.
Frugal
They make/made diff housings for Jags and Aston Martins and years ago they made the special wheels required for the Winfield GTR’s when they had to run 1500kg weight in Group A.
Also made bell housings for other Nissan cars OS and other manufactures
MB^^
Thanks for that, Ryobi make lots of castings for auto use too.
[Name only, totally our of powertools and garden equipment now]
Cheers
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