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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 February 2023
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2023
Foreseen end date
Description
Volvo Trucks Gent, part of the multinational Volvo group and a facility has announced it will be seeking 100 additional employees for its facility in Gent. The main reasoning behind the hiring effort is the fact that production is expected to increase in the coming year. In the previous year, approximately 42.000 trucks were produced. It is expected that in the coming year 2000 additional trucks will have to be produced.
Eurofound (2023), Volvo Trucks, Business expansion in Belgium, factsheet number 108607, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/108607.
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