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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.20 - Manufacture of bodies (coachwork) for motor vehicles; manufacture of trailers and semi-trailers
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 March 2021
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2021
Foreseen end date
31 December 2023
Description
Specialised in industrial bodywork (renovation of coaches and city buses and renovation of passenger cars for rail transport), Safra has announced 400 recruitments to accompany its investments in hydrogen and electric buses. It has designed an electric bus with multi-hybrid propulsion. This mode of urban transport, called 'Businova', offers a range of 200 kilometres and consumes three times less than a combustion vehicle. Safra has obtained a €4 million contract from the Occitanie region to experiment with the conversion of 15 diesel coaches into fuel cell electric coaches during their renovation from 2021 to 2024.
Eurofound (2021), Safra, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 103885, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103885.
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