Winnipeg Automation Company establishes 1/3 of the staff while the commercial war leads to “freezing expenses”
A robotics company based in Winnipeg says that it has fired about a third of its employees, since the orders for its products dry up between uncertainty deriving from the Canadian-American commercial war.
Eascan Automation Inc. states that between 20 and 23 employees were left to go last month, with the companies that recently decreased by about 25 % by a peak guided by the repressed application after Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.
The company, which provides manufacturers customized machines, states that its activity comes mainly from Manitoba and other parts of Canada, but there has still been a slowdown that began in the period in which Donald Trump was re -elected president of the United States.
The producers who made “any type of welding or folding or manufacture, many of their things went to the United States,” said Jason Andres, general manager of Eascan.
“Many companies are saying: ‘Ok, this year we don’t need a robot. We can wait for another year.'”
Andres said that it includes steel and aluminum processors, whose sector has recently been affected by a 25 % rate exports of those metals to the United States
Watch | Eascan says he expects to make time to the commercial war despite the layoffs:
Winnipeg’s Eascan automation states that some customers have paused projects between uncertainty on the commercial relations of Canada-USA, but the automation company is confident that it will have some of this activity once the commercial situation will stabilize.
The general manager said Eascan recently lost $ 3 million to $ 4 million in orders that was confident that the company would have obtained, after customers decided to go out.
The company is seeing “a type of freezing of complete spending,” said Andres.
“Even those little ones (purchase orders) were more demanding to obtain, and I think it really slowed down, because sometimes we would use it to fill the gaps.”
“Very few” will escape pain: room
Loren Remillard, president and CEO of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, said that at the end of January, the majority of its members said she expected or already feeling the impacts of the US rates on Canadian assets.
Almost half of the interviewees to a survey at that point said they were expecting to lose customers, with many who also anticipated layoffs or hires of freezing, he said.
“Following longer … those freezers will transform, unfortunately, potential reductions in the workforce,” he said.
Remillard said that while the first-line exporters could be the first “by paying the price”, all the industries and associated companies that support these companies-as ESCAN-SAFE Wounds also, since the impact of the rates moves through the economy.
“He speaks to the insidious nature of the rates,” said Remillard.
“In the end, we know that there are very few – if chance
‘Mr. Tesco “Creation of problems
The Trump administration sent Mixed messages As for rates, it will slap Canadian goods on April 2, when another round of withdrawals on Canadian goods is destined to come into force.
This is the same for the course for the President of the United States, whose unpredictable approach to commercial negotiations was characterized by Threats, reversals and delays.
Eascan said he expects business to collect once customers get some clarity.
“We really hope it’s just a break and that we will return to where we want to be,” said sales director Gary Kristiansen.
He added that he received some calls from potential customers who want to move some projects to the advantage, but who are holding for the moment.
“I had one this morning, for example, who said …” Mr. T is creating too many problems, “said Kristiansen.” Call me in May. “
