The court declared the bankruptcy of Ultinon Motion Poland, the owner of the erstwhile Philips mill in Pabianice. The plant employs around 700 people and for years was 1 of the crucial employers of the region. It's a drama for the local community, but besides a lesson on the price of losing control of industry.
Court, syndicate and crew uncertainty
The court declared the bankruptcy of Ultinon Motion Poland, the owner of the erstwhile Philips mill in Pabianice producing lighting for the automotive industry. According to MotoFaktor for EPAinfo, the resolution was published on 15 July 2026, a syndicate was appointed and creditors were called on to submit claims.
The plant, known in the city as a "light bulb factory", employs about 700 people. MotoFaktor reported that the territory Labour Office in Pabianice had not yet received a request for collective redundancies. This means that the crew's formal future is not foregone, but uncertainty is real.
The syndication is to analyse the anticipation of selling the company or part of it to an investor. Only the deficiency of a buyer could mean the liquidation of assets and the end of production.
Polish mill in a crisis of others
According to manufacture relations, problems of the Pabianite plant do not arise solely from its local activity. In the background is the situation of the American First Brands group, which took over Lumileds and the Pabianite mill in 2024. MotoFaktor reported that the bet has been profitable in fresh years, and its destiny has been determined by the owner's troubles.
That's the point. For years Poland has put a large part of the manufacture in the hands of external capital groups. erstwhile everything goes well, we hear about global supply chains and modern management. erstwhile the owner's crisis comes, the worker in Pabianice stays with the question of whether he will have something to support his household with.
A free marketplace is needed. abroad capital can make jobs. But the serious state must realize that manufacture is not just a table in Excel. These are competences, local communities, taxes and economical security.
Dependency price
The past of Philips' erstwhile mill shows that Poland cannot only be the assembly and production facilities of another people's decisions. We request our own capital, strong companies and a sustainable industrial policy, not a one-off sale of assets.
For Pabianic the stake is direct: hundreds of families, local services, tiny shops, loans, life plans. The failure of a plant specified a scale strikes further than the mill gate.
Now you gotta look at the syndicate and the authorities on your hands. The sale of an operating company to an investor would be better than a simple liquidation. The Polish economy needs places where it truly is produced. all place like this, erstwhile lost, is rebuilt for years.
