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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
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 May 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2006
Description
Bosch Diesel, a joint-venture of a Czech company Motorpal and the world's leading manufacturer of diesel injection systems Robert Bosch from Stuttgart, Germany (established in 1993), has opened a new assembly hall with investment of more than €100 million in Jihlava. The company will produce there a new generation of high-pressure pumps for diesel engines. The largest employer in the region has already hired 600 workers this year and plans to increase its current staff of 5,800 employees by another 1,000 people in the course of 2006.
Eurofound (2005), Bosch Diesel, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 61537, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61537.
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