{"id":4555,"date":"2008-10-22T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:07:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:07:52","slug":"epalestine-blogspot-com-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2008\/10\/epalestine-blogspot-com-41\/","title":{"rendered":"[ePalestine] FORBES: Lock maker Assa Abloy to move West Bank plant \/ Thank Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lock maker Assa Abloy to move West Bank plant  <\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Associated Press 10.21.08, 10:51 AM ET  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -  Sweden’s Assa Abloy AB, the world’s largest lock maker, said Tuesday it would move a production plant from an Israeli settlement in the West Bank after being criticized by human rights groups.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The announcement followed a critical report by the Church of Sweden, aid group Diakonia and SwedWatch, a nonprofit group that monitors the conduct of Swedish businesses. The report said Assa Abloy disrespects international humanitarian law by conducting business in occupied territory.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The plant is located in the West Bank settlement of Barkan and has 100 employees, Assa Abloy said. It’s operated by Mul-T-Lock, an Israeli subsidiary that the Swedish lock maker acquired in 2000.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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"Assa Abloy can only in this context regret that the inappropriateness has not been noted internally, during the eight years of ownership, of having a production unit on the West Bank," the company said in a statement.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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It said an internal investigation had been started to plan the move "in an orderly way."  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Stockholm-based Assa Abloy is a world-leading maker of mechanical, electromagnetic and electronic locks.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Please write\/call this firm today and thank them for taking this move:<\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


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ASSA ABLOY AB<\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

P.O. Box 70340<\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

SE-107 23 Stockholm<\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Sweden<\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Tel: +46 8-506 485 00<\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

E-mail: info@assaabloy.com<\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Associated Press  Lock maker Assa Abloy to move West Bank plant  Associated Press 10.21.08, 10:51 AM ET  STOCKHOLM, Sweden -  Sweden’s Assa Abloy AB, the world’s largest lock maker, said Tuesday it would move a production plant from an Israeli settlement in the West Bank after being criticized by human rights groups.  The announcement followed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder & Emeritus Member of Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}