After "summer sleep"

Pöttinger recalled all employees from the AMS

Production at agricultural machinery specialist Pöttinger has restarted as planned.

(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Markus Wenzel, Pöttinger Landtechnik GmbH)

Due to a slump in orders, Pöttinger had recently cut back production considerably and even registered 200 employees as temporarily unemployed. The re-employment guarantee was honored and all employees are back on board. However, the next few months will be "challenging", they say. 

In July and August, 200 production employees were registered as unemployed for three to four weeks each with a guarantee of reinstatement, while 450 employees took a week's unpaid leave - this is how agricultural machinery specialist Pöttinger reacted to the recent slump in orders.

Gregor Dietachmayr, the management spokesman, announced that normal production operations would be resumed from September.

Gregor Dietachmayr is spokesman for the Pöttinger management.

(Bild: Pöttinger Landtechnik GmbH)

Did the calculation work out? Yes, according to the family business from Grieskirchen. "The measures have worked as planned," confirms Dietachmayr. Production has restarted. "The temporary registration with the AMS for some employees did not have to be extended," the manager says. He emphasizes: "There were also no redundancies." So we got through without redundancies.

Better picture at the turn of the year
What happens now? Pöttinger always acquires orders from the agricultural machinery trade between September and December. Dietachmayr calls this upcoming period "challenging" and says: "After this phase, we will have a better picture of how the financial year that has just begun will go."