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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.20 - Manufacture of batteries and accumulators
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 September 2021
Employment effect (start)
21 September 2021
Foreseen end date
21 December 2021
Description
Finnish motor vehicle manufacturer Valmet Automotive recruits 250 new employees during autumn 2021. The recruitments will take place in Salo, in the southern part of Finland. Indeed, the company has received a second battery manufacturing contract for the Salo battery plant, and as a result the Salo plant production will expand into high voltage batteries for the automotive industry.
Most of the workers will be needed for positions of production, quality, and logistics, but the extension of plant operations also requires more supervisors and specialists in various fields.
According to Valmet’s Senior Vice President for EV systems, the company is growing very fast in battery business and has already announced five battery manufacturing contracts in the Salo and Uusikaupunki production sites.
The Valmet Automotive Group is one of the largest vehicle contract manufacturers in the world. According to their website, they employ approximately 14,000 people globally. Approximately, 480 of them are employed in Salo.
Eurofound (2021), Valmet Automotive , Business expansion in Finland, factsheet number 105249, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105249.
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