The railway equipment manufacturer Stadler Rail announced on Friday that it had filed a request for temporary partial unemployment with the canton of St. Gallen. The group is having difficulty sourcing aluminum following the shutdown of its supplier Constellium after bad weather in Valais. In total, 119 employees are affected.
The delivery delays are the result of the production stoppage of the Valais supplier Constellium – from which Stadler obtains its aluminum profiles – and which was affected by bad weather and flooding at the end of June.
The parts provided by this long-standing partner are “basic elements”, says Marc Meschenmöser, communications director of Stadler Rail, at Forum on Friday evening. This is the “start of train construction”.
>> Watch the 7:30 p.m. report on the bad weather in Valais which affected Constellium in June:
“Temporary measure”
“This is a temporary measure (…) We assume that Stadler will then be able to exploit the production of car bodies to the maximum again. The order book is well filled”, assures the group’s general director , Markus Bernsteiner.
Stadler has 5,300 employees throughout Switzerland, and Stadler Rheintal 1,700 people at the factories in St. Margrethen and Altenrhein.
Nearly 1,200 tonnes of aluminum profiles are stored for Stadler at Constellium. The latter expects to be able to restart production at the earliest at the end of October.
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