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Growth 14Transformation 8Decline 10
Key figures
+1,000new jobs announcedfrom 2 reports · since Aug 2025
3,730affected by layoffs and closuresfrom 7 reports · since Nov 2025
Largest expansions
- Eli Lilly builds plant in Alzey, investment since halved+500 New jobs ·
- Niedax opens technology campus in Rahms, up to 500 jobs planned+500 New jobs ·
Largest job cuts
- BioNTech ends vaccine production, cutting up to 1,860 jobs1,860 Affected staff ·
- TE Connectivity to cut 630 jobs at its Speyer site630 Affected staff ·
- Mann+Hummel to close its Speyer site, affecting 600 jobs600 Affected staff ·
Sectors
| Sector | Entries | New jobs | Affected staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharma | 5 | +500 | 1,860 |
| Healthcare | 4 | — | 118 |
| Banking | 3 | — | — |
| Industry | 3 | +500 | 759 |
| Automotive supplier | 1 | — | 600 |
Follow-up
Followed up: 6 of 7 announcements older than six months.
Documented outcome: completed: 2.
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Open cases
Sums of the reports recorded in the tracker since recording began, not a complete picture of the labour market.
2026
- Stratec to sell diagnostics unit Diatron to Indian investors · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Schleipen Paper shuts Bad Dürkheim mill, cutting 73 jobs · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Mainz opens new tram branch on line 53 through Binger Straße · Infrastructure · 🇩🇪 Germany
- H.I.G. Capital to take majority of infrastructure services firm Terras · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Siempelkamp to cut up to 129 jobs at its Zweibrücken site · Layoffs · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Lahn Valley line reopens after Fachingen tunnel renewal · Infrastructure · 🇩🇪 Germany
- DB Regio expands Kaiserslautern depot for 44 battery trains, EUR 6m · Expansions · 🇩🇪 Germany
- TE Connectivity to cut 630 jobs at its Speyer site · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- BioNTech ends vaccine production, cutting up to 1,860 jobs · Layoffs · 🇩🇪 Germany
- BioNTech to close Idar-Oberstein plant by 2027 · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Mann+Hummel to close its Speyer site, affecting 600 jobs · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Niedax opens technology campus in Rahms, up to 500 jobs planned · Expansions · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Three Hesse cooperative banks plan three-way merger · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Canyon plans to cut up to 320 jobs in Koblenz and Amsterdam · Layoffs · 🇩🇪 Germany / Netherlands
2025
- DB InfraGO reopens Ahr Valley railway after flood destruction · Infrastructure · 🇩🇪 Germany
- CureVac shareholders approve takeover by BioNTech · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Maria Stern hospital in Remagen closes, cutting 118 jobs · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- VR Bank RheinAhrEifel and PSD Bank Koblenz plan merger · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- St Joseph Hospital in Prüm files for self-administered insolvency · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Mayen-Koblenz council seeks closure plan for Boppard hospital · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Sparkasse Neuwied and Westerwald-Sieg explore merger · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- DB Cargo sells about 6,000 freight wagons to GATX and leases them back · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- BioNTech launches exchange offer for CureVac · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Eli Lilly builds plant in Alzey, investment since halved · Expansions · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Trier West Line reopens after more than 40 years · Infrastructure · 🇩🇪 Germany
2022
- New signal box controls Wörth–Germersheim–Speyer line · Infrastructure · 🇩🇪 Germany
2021
- Eifel line's Kuckuckslay Tunnel widened for double track · Infrastructure · 🇩🇪 Germany
2019
- POS North upgrade: Neustadt–Böhl-Iggelheim section ready for 200 km/h · Infrastructure · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Petersberg Tunnel on the Mosel line widened and modernised · Infrastructure · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Hochmosel Crossing bridge opens to traffic · Infrastructure · 🇩🇪 Germany
2017
- Renovated old Kaiser Wilhelm tunnel on the Moselle reopens · Infrastructure · 🇩🇪 Germany
2016
- Mainzelbahn tram line links Mainz station with Lerchenberg · Infrastructure · 🇩🇪 Germany