Kalmar Industries will cut 150 jobs at its Tampere plant as its strategy to create single-product manufacturing centres gets into full swing.

Negotiations with 170 workers resulted in 150 lay-offs, which will be achieved through part-retirements and termination of fixed-term contracts, the company said in a statement. No other planned job cuts have been made public.

The change of operating structure, detailed in May, would see each Kalmar product having a single product supply centre, responsible for product development, marketing and production. Kalmar said at the time that the strategy would have "personnel implications".

Under the new structure, straddle carriers, rubber-tyred gantry cranes and four-wheel-drive terminal tractors will be produced in Tampere; reachstackers and container-handling forklifts will be produced in Lidhult, Sweden; industrial forklifts in Ljungby, Sweden, ship-to-shore and rail-mounted gantry cranes in Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and production of regular terminal tractors will cease in Texas and be moved to Ottawa, in Kansas, USA.