Nokia recently announced that they are sacking around 285 people from its Salo plant to ensure production is now fully focused on the high value European smartphone market. From the press release: Nokia is planning to develop the operating mode of its Salo plant to ensure production is focused fully on the high-value smartphone market, especially in Europe. The key drivers for a new operating mode in Salo plant are diverse customer requirements, faster deliveries in high-end mobile device manufacturing and the company’s transformation towards a solution-driven offering. The plans will result in the introduction of new and highly specialized manufacturing methods and also entail changes to personnel at the facility.The planned new focus for Salo is expected to affect a maximum of 285 employees involved in production and in related support functions at Salo. Today, Nokia’s Salo facility employs approximately 2 200 people. Nokia will support alternative solutions, such as finding new positions at Nokia for as many employees as possible. Nokia will begin consultations with employee representatives about these plans, including discussions about voluntary severance packages. Additionally, Nokia plans to stop currently ongoing rotational temporary lay-offs at the Salo plant by the end of June 2010. “Salo is a crucial part of Nokia’s global manufacturing network. Plans involving changes to employees are always painful, and they are set in motion only after thorough consideration. However, with these plans our aim is to ensure the plant’s future competitiveness and its special role as one best suited to the production of high value mobile devices,” says Juha Putkiranta, Senior Vice President, Markets, Nokia. Nokia has a strong global mobile device manufacturing network with ten manufacturing sites in nine countries – Brazil, China, Finland, Hungary, India, Mexico, Romania, South Korea and the United Kingdom. Similar Posts: None Found Share/Save

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Nokia Revamps Salo plant. Shifts Focus to concentrate on production of the European Smartphone Market

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The  Mobile Premier Awards has annouced 48 nominated startups to the Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation: The best grassroots startup innovation chosen by their peers in partnership with MobileMonday, the global community of mobile professionals. The nominees were chosen by participating MobileMonday chapters from over 250 participating startups. An international jury of the most recognized mobile industry experts will select the 20 finalists who will pitch their idea, application or project at the Mobile Premier Awards event that takes place in  Barcelona , at the Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica on  February 15, 2010 The year’s MPA best in Mobile Startup innovation Nominees are: Austria – Mobilizy Chennai- mobiSiteGalore Barcelona – fonYou Belfast – SpeechStorm Bergen – ComCom Berlin – spendino Bogota – RedSalvavidas Brussels – Getyoo Buenos Aires – Beepoint Caracas – Consorcio Si-SMS Copenhagen – Cepa Mobility Dallas – Wave Integrated Marketing Solutions Dublin – Locle Dusseldorf – Yoose Edinburgh – Mobile Acuity Estonia – TaxiPal Frankfurt – match2blue Hamburg – apprupt Hungary – InfomatiX Jakarta – dotus indonesia Kuala Lumpur – CWorks Mobile Lithuania – SendFlow London – Audioboo Madrid – Tooio Malmö – Color Monkey Medellin – Industrialmedia Melbourne – Callernizer Mexico – Binbit Mid-Atlantic – Amphetamobile Milan – Soundtrckr Mumbai – Umundo Munich – Aloqa New Delhi – Voicetap Technologies New York – PercentMobile Oslo – Bipper Communication Paris – Presselite Rest of EMEA – Layar Rio de Janeiro – iMusica Rome – Mobnotes Sao Paulo – Atope Shanghai – mInfo Silicon Valley – CloudMade Singapore – Just Mobile Slovenia – Visionect Sofia – Bianor Stockholm – MoSync Tel Aviv – waze Vancouver – Sort Shots The finalists  will be announced on  January 25, 2010 . The event takes on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona at the Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica. Similar Posts: None Found Share/Save

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