Dusseldorf  - Henkel, the German-based detergents group which announced in February that it would cut its world payroll by 3,000, issued details Monday, including the closure of its laundry detergents plant at Genthin in eastern Germany.

The cuts inside Germany up to the year 2011 would eliminate 1,000 jobs or about one tenth of the payroll, said Henkel at its head office in the western city of Dusseldorf.

It said the manufacturing capacity at Genthin, where 240 people work, would be transferred to Henkel factories in Dusseldorf.

The closure is a fresh blow to Saxony state, the most industrialized part of former communist East Germany, where jobs are scarce. Henkel is a global maker of branded household detergents as well as glues. (dpa)