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Manufacturing (24 - 25) Manufacture of metals 24.5 - Casting of metals 24.5 - Casting of metals
160 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 October 2005
Employment effect (start)
1 November 2005
Foreseen end date
30 June 2006
Description
The Swiss company Global-Kristall-Silizium will invest €80 Million in a factory that will produce components for photovoltaic cells. The investment will be made in the city of Thalheim in Saxony-Anhalt in a region that has attracted several producer of solar equipment already.
Eurofound (2005), Global-Kristall-Silizium, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 62466, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/62466.