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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.20 - Manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 May 2023
Employment effect (start)
23 May 2023
Foreseen end date
31 March 2024
Description
The French train manufacturer Alstom has announced company’s plans to hire 150 people until March 2024 to respond to the expected increase in productive needs at the plant of Santa Perpetua de Mogoda in Barcelona (Spain).
It is expected that this factory will exceed 1,150 employees by the end of this period. Currently, the manufacturing plant is fully engaged in the production of 201 trains of great capacity for Renfe, in addition to 250 train carriages for the Barcelona metro and 80 trams for Casablanca (Morocco).
Eurofound (2023), ALSTOM, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 109086, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/109086.
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