The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
(10 - 33) Manufacturing (16 - 17) Manufacture of wood and paper materials 16.2 - Manufacture of products of wood, cork, straw and plaiting materials 16.22 - Manufacture of assembled parquet floors
New offshoring locations
Serbia
211 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
9 September 2025
Employment effect (start)
9 September 2025
Foreseen end date
31 December 2025
Description
Tarkett Polska, a French company operating in the flooring industry, will close its factory in Orzechowo, resulting in the layoff of 211 employees.
The decision comes as a response to a significant decline in demand for wooden flooring; factory will be closed by end 2025 and production will be transferred to Bačka Palanka in Serbia. All employees will be laid-off. In the second factory of the company in Jaśle no lay-offs are planned.
Tarkett is a French company that manufactures flooring and sports surfaces; the company has research and development centers, recycling centers, and production facilities, including two in Poland. The company employs 12,000 people.
Eurofound (2025), Tarkett, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Poland, factsheet number 203289, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203289.
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