2025-12-16 10:00
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2025-12-16 10:00
Ceramika Paradyż, one of the largest producers of ceramic tiles in Poland, is conducting group layoffs, informs Wyborcza.pl. The company, which employs over a thousand people in total, intends to reduce employment by 140 people. The entire industry is facing increasingly higher operating costs and the inflow of cheap tiles from e.g. India, but manufacturers do not expect the situation to improve.
According to Wyborcza's reports, The reduction of employment at Ceramika Paradyż in Opoczno will involve 140 people. The company's president, Marek Barański, specifies that it is 13% of the entire staff.
The Polish market is flooded with cheap tiles
Group layoffs in Paradyż are related to the broader problem of imports from abroad:
One of the problems of the industry is the issue of flooding the Polish market with cheap products, e.g. from India, which had a significant impact on reducing the production of Polish companies. – explains the president of Ceramika Paradyż, Marek Barański.
Production costs (e.g. energy and gas) are actually higher, and companies have to reduce margins, which affects their financial results. As part of cost cutting, Ceramika from Opoczno is reducing employment, but it ensures that employees will receive benefits due under the Labor Code.
There will be no more layoffs
Marek Barański, president of Paradyż, is not optimistic about the future of the industry. Rising costs and imports from India mean that the situation will not improve quickly, but the company does not plan any further employment cuts. The company intends to focus on cost optimization and modification of its strategy to attract customers.
The layoffs at Ceramika Paradyż are not the first major cuts in the ceramics industry. A few years earlier, Cerrad had downsized, saying goodbye to 350 employees. Already in March this year, the Polish Ceramic Union warned about the problem of importing cheap tiles from India and Turkey, which poses a threat to the entire industry and may lead to a further breakdown in production and subsequent group layoffs.
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