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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 April 2004
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Walser, Austrian producer of carpets for motor vehicles, decided for a Greenfield investment in Horná Pôtoň, which is located in the area where the P.S.A. Peugeot Citroen is building its new car production unit. The company's director Hans-Karl Walser informed that the investment of about 1.5 million euros will allow a production of 100,000 car carpets per year by autumn 2004. The new unit will employ 100 employees and will also serve as a distribution centre for the markets in the central EU Member States.
Sources
19 April 2004: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2004), Walser Slovakia, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 60360, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60360.
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