The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manfacture for transport equipment Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
350 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 January 2025
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2025
Foreseen end date
31 December 2025
Description
Valmet Automotive, an automotive manufacturer, is expanding its plant in Żary, which will employ 350 additional workers.
The factory expansion aims to increase production of solutions for the electromobility sector, such as advanced aerodynamic systems, active spoilers or charging flaps for electric vehicles. The construction will end in the spring of 2025, and new jobs will be created in Q4 of 2025.
Valmet Automotive (formerly Saab-Valmet) is a Finnish automotive company, owned by Metso, which manufactures cars on behalf of other companies.
Eurofound (2025), Valmet Automotive, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 202291, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/202291.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
