Steel company ArcelorMittal Ostrava has temporarily ousted from operating the belt line P 1500th.

The track producing flat products, which drove the last two months to less than a third of its capacity, the firm does maintain and prepare it for an investment project. Employees will work on either maintenance or migrate to other plants.

Ms Black Dvorakova spokeswoman of AMO said that at the time of passing track downtime and overall maintenance company to install it sets a universal gauge for 20 million. This significantly improves product quality. Some employees will go into production of long products. She added that "There's pressure on the contrary we have a contract there and we had to secure a fourth shift, which has until now dealt with agency employees."

The outage covers 77 employees. A total of 50 of them are gradually shifting to long products, others will do various cleaning and maintenance work and security patrols.

Trade unionist Mr Sling said that orders from the conveyor track will now be rolling in Poland, which is a complication for the subsidiary company of ArcelorMittal Distribution Solutions CR, which track the material of this process. He added that "This is the largest manufacturer of crash barriers in the country. Now there is a risk that some of the people there will lose their jobs."

He had said that the layoffs could involve up to 150 people. He said it is also the question of how long they can keep people moved into the production of long products. H added that "At the moment there are orders and those people will use there. Company will want to keep it, because otherwise no one to do on flat products, if there are productions ran again."

Source - Patria

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