Tunnelling Journal reported on 7 August 2019 that the German tunneling powerhouse Mühlhäuser hit preliminary insolvency procedures and its parts are up for sale.
Journal says " SMT Scharf AG is considering in detail the acquisition of significant assets of Karl H Mühlhäuser GmbH & Co KG and Mühlhäuser-Obermann GmbH, both in Michelstadt, Germany, both of which saw preliminary insolvency proceedings open on June 28, 2019. "
To read Tris Thomas' news click on this: https://tunnellingjournal.com/smt-scharf-looks-buy-key-muhlhauser-assets/
Mühlhäuser had recently bought the French TBM producer NFM Technologies (ex NHI company). I understand it was a new hope for stability for NFM but then somebody posted a news from a local French newspaper that NFM workers are not being paid and they organized some sort of temporary strike:
Do you think NFM is part of the SMT Scharf AG deal?
Any insider info?
Another one bites the dust. Bad bad bad. @Robin that somebody was me. Now I get it why NFM workers do not get their salaries properly paid. I am sad for European manufacturing.
I didn't see this one coming. Obviously neither the management of Muhlhauser. Otherwise why would they take over NFM Technologies when they themselves are in trouble?
Bad news. The potential buyer SMT Scharf AG is also a German company I reckon.
what about NFM? Is it also for sale?
I think NFM has no buyers in the event that it is on sale.
at least Obermann is saved it reports the German press
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Mühlhauser owned NFM Technologies' workers Have Not Been Paid for Salaries. No TBM Orders, No Money
The same had happened some months ago, resulting in temporary strike.
According to a local French press `Le Creusot`, French workers of Mühlhauser NFM are not happy because their salaries are not paid. French TBM company NFM was acquired by German tunneling company Mühlhauser short time ago....
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Muhlhauser too?