Tire multinational seeks CEO for its best factory in the world

In the renovated central offices of the Place des Carmes in

they could not believe it.

, a 'black leg' from Michelin, with a

and an example of

of the tire manufacturer,

.

Michelin, the multinational that pampers the professional career of each and every one of its 123,000 employees,

in the chamber.

With

that manufacture millions of tires for passenger cars and public works machinery, the Vitoria plant

.

The management of Michelin Spain headed by

after Arconada's goodbye while the more than 3,500 employees of the factory have already started the 'porras' in their groups of guasaps about the

. The official silence about the unexpected departure of Arconada jumped into the air yesterday when the general director of the plant sent a letter to his closest collaborators that spread like wildfire among the rest of the staff.

"As of today I terminate my contract with Michelin and go to early retirement"

, began the letter in which the first unexpected departure of a manager from the most important Michelin plant on the planet and the second most important by staff of the Michelin plant became official. Basque Country.

Sources close to Arconada rule out health problems or a covert disciplinary dismissal, while in union circles his goodbye is interpreted as an early professional end given the

of the French multinational's factories.

Arconada took over the Vitoria plant in March 2019, taking over from the current head of Michelin in Spain and Portugal, Mari Paz Rubina.

from the University of Santander, the director of Vitoria until yesterday joined Michelin in 1986 and, as is customary in the top managers of this multinational, has had up to a

until arrive in the Basque Country where he had the objective of improving the competitiveness of a factory weighed down by high absenteeism.

Michelin's Basque plants

compared to those located in Valladolid and Aranda de Duero, without climatological factors or production systems explaining this anomaly.

"The Covid has gone down but

and that is worrying because we are greatly eroding our competitiveness and, therefore, our future. An extra cost in salary mass as a result of absenteeism does not help competitiveness at all," Arconada warned in an interview granted to Diario de Noticias de Álava last November 2012.

The objective of increasing

for the last director of Michelin in Vitoria who increased the levels of control of internal spending to the maximum.

Each investment of more than

had to previously have the approval of the financial director or Arconada himself.

Extreme measures in a powerful industrial structure made up of four plants dedicated to the manufacture of some 11 million passenger tires per year.

In addition, an equivalent production of wheels for public works machinery that has been the economic support of the plant when, as of

.

Two more plants facilitate the wiring and the raw material with which the tires are made.

Arconada's surprising goodbye breaks with the usual practice at Michelin of giving

of several months with his predecessor.

This was the passing of the baton in 2016 between Amadeo Alvárez and Mari Paz Robina and in 2019 between the current head of Spain and Portugal and Arconada.

In the workshops, changing rooms and corridors of the factory located to the north of Vitoria, three names are repeated as the urgent relief because the horizon of the management is located in the next fifteen days.

, director in Valladolid,

, responsible for Lasarte and

, director in Aranda de Duero, share their employees' bets.

But in the management of Michelin there are no clues focused on the search for a director for

.

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