Dräxlmaier to close Zrenjanin (Serbia) harness plant, ~1,100 jobs

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Dräxlmaier to close its Zrenjanin (Serbia) wire-harness plant by end-March 2027, about 1,100 jobs affected
- In a management notice to staff, Dräxlmaier said it could not secure a new project for Zrenjanin. Current projects stop by end-January 2027 and the plant closes by end-March 2027.
- The ramp-down hits about 85% of the roughly 1,100 employees by January; a closure team stays to March. Severance follows the redundancy programme and collective agreement.
- The plant opened in 2008, expanded in 2012 and 2016, and once employed more than 6,000 people, making it the largest employer in Central Banat. Local press in mid-October still described closure as possible pending talks with the Serbian government; this is now the formal decision.