RESHORING CASE

Saint-Gobain PAM

Company details
Company name: 
Saint-Gobain PAM
Company country: 
France
Sector: 
C - Manufacturing
Sector detail: 
C24 - Manufacture of basic metals
Sub-sectors: 
C24.2 - Manufacture of tubes, pipes, hollow profiles and related fittings, of steel
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
15/11/2018
Starting implementation date: 
January, 2019
End of Implementation : 
December, 2019
Reshored to: 
France
Location of affected unit(s): 
Pont-à-Mousson
Location code: 
FRF31
Reshored business function: 
Production
Partial or Total reshoring: 
Partial
Reshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Reasons for reshoring: 
Economic crisis
Firm's global reorganization
Rationalization of costs
Case narrative: 

Saint-Gobain PAM is a France-based company that produces ductile iron pipes. In 2019, the company decided to reorganize its European production activities; in so doing, it will relocate at the home country some product lines actually manufactured in a German plant. The main reasons supporting the relocation decision are the cost-efficiency and the customers demand decline. While the relocation will create staff surplus in Germany (around 170 employees), there is no news about creation of new job positions in the French plant.

Sources: 

Est republican 08/11/2018

Republicain Lorrain 15/11/2018

Sources link: 

https://www.estrepublicain.fr/edition-de-pont-a-mousson/2018/11/08/trans...

https://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/edition-de-sarreguemines-bitche/2018/...

Offshoring details
Offshoring location: 
Germany
Offshored business function: 
Production
Offshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Host country geographical area: 
Western Europe