Engines
The Klaus Kneale Pink-Slip List (P-SL) for July 2009.
The following Pink-Slip List (P-SL) was compiled by Klaus Kneale.
Job Losses = 15840
July 29: UAL Corp. lets go of 50 in Missouri.
July 29: General Electric fires another 190 in Indiana.
July 29: Intuit dismisses 120 nationwide.
July 27: General Electric dismisses 93 employees from an oil and gas facility in Wisconsin.
July 27: Verizon Communications fires 8000 workers from its wireless business.
July 23: Air Products and Chemicals fired 1150 workers.
July 21: Continental Airlines lets go of 1700 employees.
July 17: Boeing lays off 130 workers in Alabama.
July 16: Harley-Davidson fires 1000 workers from its operations in the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Missouri.
July 16: Cisco Systems lets go of 700 workers from its headquarters in San Jose, CA.
July 14: Norfolk Southern lays off 84 workers from one of its Alabama rail yards.
July 13: Navistar International dismisses 275 workers, most of them from Mississippi.
July 8: AGCO Corp. lays of 154 workers in Kansas.
July 6: The 3M Company lets go of 200 workers in Massachusetts.
July 1: The Dow Chemical Company cuts 2500 jobs. The layoffs are a result of the company closing three Louisiana plants.
Wartsila layoff 450 employees worldwide.
Wartsila a Finnish manufacturer of large diesel and gas engines for use in powering ships and electricity generation are to layoff up to 450 people worldwide to cut costs as orders plunged 86 percent early this year.
Total losses = 450
According to Wikipedia, Wärtsilä engines are mainly used for marine propulsion and for electricity generation. The engines which Wärtsilä produces range from the 4L20, a four-stroke, medium-speed engine producing 720 kW (980 HP), to the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RT-flex96-C two-stroke diesel engine series which, in 2006, was reported as being one of the most powerful yet most compact prime-movers in the world. This model has a cylinder bore of 960 mm (37.8 in) and stroke of 2500 mm (98.4 in). The largest version produces up to 80,080 kW (107,400 HP) in the 14-cylinder configuration. These engines are used to propel large container ships, such as those of the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. The vessels are known as the E-class ships; Emma Maersk was the first.
