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Rechlin / Berne (dpa) - The shipbuilder Fassmer GmbH & Co. KG closes its traditional East German shipbuilding location Rechlin on the Müritz (Mecklenburg Lake District).
The background is the problems in the shipyard industry, as Rechlin's mayor Wolf-Dieter Ringguth (CDU) explained on Sunday.
The management in Berne, Lower Saxony, announced that the Fassmer subsidiary in Rechlin, founded 25 years ago, will surprisingly close its doors at the end of March.
The 30 employees have already been informed of this.
"This is a bad decision for us," said Ringguth.
Fassmer has to downsize in order to stay in the market and is withdrawing to Lower Saxony.
At the Fassmer Group in Berne, nobody was available to comment on the weekend.
The news platform “Wir sind Müritzer” had previously reported on the planned closure.
The company's justification included the economic pressure from the corona pandemic.
This also includes the cruise industry, for which the company builds gangways, lifeboats and other systems.
Several such shipbuilding projects had been postponed due to the corona crisis.
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Rechlin was known for decades for the fact that, among other things, free-fall lifeboats for large ships were manufactured there.
The forms and plans for these lifeboats had been lost in the course of privatization by the trust.
Fassmer came to Rechlin in the mid-1990s because official boats were also built there.
The location had also been expanded with funding, as Ringguth said.
He had hoped that the highly qualified jobs could be preserved.
You have to "respect the entrepreneurial decision."
He is hoping for a maritime resettlement.
Most recently, the Fassmer Schiffsservice GmbH Rechlin produced, among other things, complicated welded parts and systems for mega yachts, cruise ships as well as accessories and landing platforms for helicopters on large wind turbines.
A year ago, Managing Director Harald Fassmer had spoken of a “stable order situation”.
District Council President Thomas Diener (CDU) expressed criticism of the closure.
There were previously no signs of problems.
The region has had to cope with several such withdrawals by companies from the old federal states for months.
The Fassmer Group, headquartered in Lower Saxony, has so far had 1,600 employees at several locations, including in Poland and China.
The lifeboats for the Asian market have also been built in China for years.
The annual turnover was stated by Fassmer with 150 to 200 million euros.
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