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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25.21 - Manufacture of central heating radiators and boilers
115 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 June 2020
Employment effect (start)
1 August 2020
Foreseen end date
Description
Saunier Duval, a subsidiary of the German group Vaillant, is continuing to grow and will be recruiting 100 operators, 40 temporary staff and 15 engineers and technicians between now and the beginning of August to support sales of its traditional equipment and especially heat pumps.
The company will recruit at the Nantes (Loire Atlantique) plant which is highly robotised and one of the Industry 4.0 factories of the 'Industry of the future' initiative. The factory is specialised in the design and manufacture of wall-mounted gas boilers, solar thermal panels and heat pumps.
The plant employs 570 employees and 150 temporary workers year-round, with a turnover of €200 million in 2019.
Eurofound (2020), Saunier Duval , Business expansion in France, factsheet number 101093, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/101093.
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