Ruukki Engineering is to improve the efficiency of its manufacturing network by further concentrating boom manufacturing.

This will mean switching boom manufacturing at the Dortmund unit in Germany to other Ruukki units which already make booms for mobile machines.

It said “Centralizing operations on larger manufacturing units will improve Ruukki's operational efficiency and cost competitiveness.”

This will regrettably result in the closure of the Dortmund unit at the end of October 2010. The Dortmund unit currently employs 26 people.