ZF Steering Systems Poland

Type
Business expansion
Country
Poland
Region
Makroregion południowy; Śląskie; Częstochowski
Location of affected unit(s)
Częstochowa
Sector
Manufacturing
(29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment
29.3 - Manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories
29.3 - Manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories
100 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
27 October 2020
Employment effect (start)
27 October 2020
Foreseen end date

Description

Global supplier of automotive systems and components, ZF Steering Systems Poland announced the creation 100 jobs at its newly opened Electronics Plant in Częstochowa, Poland. The factory will specialise in the serial production of S-Cam4.8 cameras that offer the capability of a 100-degree horizontal field of view. With a total area of 12,000 square meters, the plant is located on a 69,000 square meter plot of land in the local Katowice Special Economic Zone. The Częstochowa facility is ZF’s first greenfield site in Eastern Europe.

ZF has 260 production units in 41 countries and employs over 147,700 people worldwide. In Poland, ZF operates in seven locations (Bielsko-Biała, Czechiwice-Dziedzice, Częstochowa, Gliwice, Łódź, Wrocław and Warsaw) employing about 8,000 people.

Previous restructuring programmes in Poland: June 2020 (317 jobs cut) and September 2020 (100 jobs created).

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2020), ZF Steering Systems Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 102220, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/102220.