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“Given the underutilisation of capacity, a further 300,000 jobs are at risk in the metal and electrical industry alone over the next two to three years,” Zander…
The figures mean 27 per cent of all production equipment across the country is currently inactive, a level not recorded since April 2020.
Eichbaum Brewery, founded in 1679 in the town of Bad Windsheim in Bavaria, announced that it will cease production later this year.
McKinsey’s 65-page study shows that Germany is investing almost nothing in additional production capacity.
Around 350 jobs are affected at the Dietenhofen site, which specialised in the manufacture of the popular toys.
Germany’s industrial sector has started weakly into the New Year.
The German industry association for the metals and electronics sector, Gesamtmetall, or the Federation of German Employers' Associations in the Metal and Electrical…
Germany’s steel sector has recorded its bleakest performance in more than 15 years, with crude steel production in 2025 falling to just 34.1 million tonnes.
The number of bankruptcy cases involving big companies in Germany sharply rose in 2025.
The French court pulled the plug on Brandt, the century-old appliance maker once seen as a pillar of national industry.
The Federation of German Industries (BDI), one of Germany’s major business associations, has warned the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz that the economy…
Energy-hungry industries Europe are effectively "dying" as rising energy prices, the flood of cheap goods from China and the side effects of climate policies make…
Sentiment in Germany’s industrial sector is at rock bottom with more than 40 per cent of companies planning to reduce their workforce in the coming year.
The post-war order of free trade is dying before our eyes—and perhaps that's the best thing that could happen to the West.
August saw the sharpest decline in German industrial production since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2022.
Belgium and Germany have borne the brunt of a sharp downturn in Europe’s chemicals industry. The sector has been shrinking fast;
China has pulled ahead of Europe in terms of factory output but the numbers, and what they mean, were not as straightforward as they may look.
Jim Ratcliffe, the owner of UK multinational chemicals and energy giant INEOS, has warned that half of the industry located in Antwerp, Europe's second-largest port,…
Germany's iconic industrial group Thyssenkrupp will be broken up and turned into a financial holding no longer producing steel.
In its latest job report on March 31, Germany's Federal Employment Agency (BA), announced that German industry lost around 120,000 jobs in the last 12 months.
Siemens, one of Germany’s biggest industrial conglomerates, has announced a tough cost-cutting programme that would see 5,600 jobs disappear in its Digital Industries…
Germany, traditionally the engine of the European economy, will have the weakest growth of all industrialised countries in 2025, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation…
Luxembourg-based multinational steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal said it was delaying big investment programmes in Europe, citing uncertainties over European Union…
The European Union has had its economic outlook downgraded for 2025 as problems related to the continent's deindustrialisation continue.
Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt, which specialises in lithium-ion technology for electric vehicles, has announced it will lay off 840 people as it continues…
Manufacturing activity across the Eurozone declined at its fastest pace this year in September as demand waned sharply despite factories cutting their prices, a…
Pessimism within the German manufacturing sector has hit its lowest level since June 2020, a report from a major economic research institution has found.
Consider the misguided environmental policies that the British government is currently pursuing.
Germany is showing worrying levels of gradual deindustrialization, a new survey has found.
Industry executives have warned that Germany has entered a phase of “de-growth” dominated by nosediving industrial production.
