Reorganization, GKN, Fokker and bigger by the downturn in the aviation industry

GKN, Fokker, is that the parts for the planes it makes, the last year of the announced restructuring as a result of the coronacrisis to the front. This is a short-term job losses in the Netherlands can not be excluded, confirms a spokesman said on Tuesday, following news about it from a Book.

GKN, Fokker, emerged from the aircraft manufacturer Fokker, in the Netherlands, five locations, with about 3.300 employees. Each branch is to determine whether the jobs should be canceled, said the spokesman.

In september last year, announced the parent company, GKN Aerospace is a global reorganization of it. It would be about a thousand out of a total of eighteen thousand jobs will be lost. GKN has fifty locations in fifteen different countries.

"the impact of The COVID-a 19-a crisis in civil aviation has been very significant," says a spokesperson from GKN, Fokker. The impact of military aviation is, according to the spokesman, is not so bad, but in the world of civil aviation is very large. "The demand for spare parts, take this off."

as well as the previously announced restructuring is being accelerated, it is now also looking at whether any further adjustments to the production facilities is needed.

In the Netherlands, the group's offices in Hoogerheide, london, uk Helmond, the netherlands, Papendrecht and Hoogeveen.