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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.2 - Support activities for transportation
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 March 2021
Employment effect (start)
16 March 2021
Foreseen end date
31 December 2021
Description
Dematic, the US-capital company which is one of the leading suppliers of integrated automated technology, software and services to optimise the supply chain, is to create 100 new jobs in its subsidiary in Kaunas in 2021. Dematic opened its engineering and consulting office in Kaunas in 2007 and it was slowly growing over the last decade. In 2020, despite the pandemic, Dematic Kaunas managed to grow by 56 employees. Currently the company in Kaunas employs 196 employees and has plans to hire additional 100 people by the end of 2021. The company will employ control specialists, mechanical engineers, software developers, managers and other profesionals.
Dematic is headquatered in the US; the company designs, builds and supports intelligent, automated solutions for manufacturing, warehouse and distribution environments. Dematic has 60 engineering centres in 25 countries, it manages manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe, China, and Australia. The company has more than 7,000 employees worldwide.
Eurofound (2021), Dematic Kaunas, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 103979, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103979.
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