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What thyssenkrupp layoffs have meant for employees

thyssenkrupp's American layoffs on record since 2025, in state filings and press reports, came from companies inside the group that carry their own names. The Terre Haute closing was thyssenkrupp Presta North America's, as the company's Terre Haute closing release put it, and the Ohio plant that release pointed the work toward belongs to thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America. South Carolina's 2026 WARN report shows the Greer layoffs filed by thyssenkrupp Supply Chain Services. Florence was a mix, since LINK nky reported that the plant was run by Rotek Inc., a ThyssenKrupp subsidiary, while the closing letter to Kentucky came from ThyssenKrupp itself. If you're tracing your own site's record, searching under both the unit's name and thyssenkrupp's catches either kind of filing. In our WARN tracker, the three filings for those sites since January 2025 cover 394 jobs in Indiana, Kentucky and South Carolina.

At Terre Haute, the release counted about 230 employees and the notice 207 affected jobs, both before the phase-down was set to begin, and the dates are what vary from person to person. The notice WRTV described said each person's last day would be set individually as the phase-down went on, so a given worker's final shift could fall anywhere between the end of August and the March 2027 target rather than on the day the notice was filed. If your last day hasn't been named yet, it's worth keeping a dated note of every date and term you're told, since any final package is easier to check against your own record than against memory.

Both closings pointed toward Ohio. The Terre Haute release aimed the chassis production at Bilstein's shock absorber plant in Hamilton, which it said would be selectively strengthened through targeted staffing measures. The Florence letter tied that closing to consolidating the company's operations in Florence and Aurora. Neither the release nor the notice WRTV described says whether Terre Haute employees would be offered places in Hamilton, and LINK nky's account of the Florence letter leaves the same question open about Aurora. If you're at Terre Haute and would consider moving, you could tell plant management in writing that you'd want a Hamilton position if one opens.

thyssenkrupp's steel cuts in Germany were agreed through a union. thyssenkrupp Steel's July 2025 release laid out one collective agreement with IG Metall covering jobs, hours, bonuses and a social compensation plan, with both sides committed to avoiding compulsory redundancies. Up to 4,000 of the jobs in it are to be outsourced rather than cut, which is worth remembering when the steel total is quoted as a layoff count. Terre Haute and Hamilton both make products for Automotive Technology's chassis business. That segment announced a global cost program in a March 2025 release and, in a September 2026 release, a chassis reorganization whose workforce adjustments were set for Essen and Ennepetal in Germany.

South Carolina's report gives the Greer filing one planned layoff date, July 5, while the Terre Haute notice WRTV described laid out a phased process with each person's date still to be set. A state list's single line can carry less timing detail than the notice behind it, so its listed date is the filing's planned date rather than a promise about a particular worker's last day. If your site was among those with notices since 2025, our Indiana, Kentucky and South Carolina unemployment pages cover how a claim is made in each of those three states.

A sourced history of thyssenkrupp layoffs

• September 2026, thyssenkrupp chassis cuts planned at Essen and Ennepetal

  The roughly 160 to 180 positions expected to be affected were to fall mainly in development and engineering, thyssenkrupp Automotive Technology's chassis realignment release said, leaving Ennepetal's shock absorber production out and the specifics to talks with employee representatives.

• May 2026, thyssenkrupp Presta Terre Haute plant closing announced

  Presta North America broke the news to employees at a May 15 meeting, and a May 18 release set the closing by March 31, 2027, with chassis work to shift toward Hamilton, Ohio. Its WARN notice, as WRTV reported in July, listed 207 jobs.

• May 2026, thyssenkrupp Supply Chain Services layoffs in Greer

  A May 4 notice from thyssenkrupp Supply Chain Services, entered in South Carolina's 2026 WARN report, set 110 permanent layoffs for July 5 at 320 Business Parkway in Greer.

• December 2025, thyssenkrupp's Rotek bearing plant closing in Florence, Kentucky

  Rotek, a thyssenkrupp subsidiary making slewing bearings, planned to lay off 77 in Florence in stages from Feb. 13 to Sept. 16, 2026, and the WARN letter, as LINK nky described it, cited consolidation of the company's Florence and Aurora, Ohio operations.

• March 2025, thyssenkrupp Automotive Technology cuts including 1,800 jobs

  About 1,800 job reductions were part of a global cost cut of over 150 million euros, aimed at personnel costs in indirect areas, that thyssenkrupp Automotive Technology paired with a temporary hiring freeze in a March 2025 release.

• November 2024, thyssenkrupp Steel plan for about 11,000 jobs

  thyssenkrupp Steel's plan to cut or outsource about 11,000 jobs became a union agreement. A July 2025 release said both sides remained committed to avoiding compulsory redundancies, and a December 2025 release reported it signed, running to September 30, 2030.

What to do if you're laid off from thyssenkrupp

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. thyssenkrupp's biggest hubs: Indiana, South Carolina, Kentucky. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what thyssenkrupp's hub states run: Indiana, South Carolina, Kentucky, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.