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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
600 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 July 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
TRW, the automobile component manufacturer, wants to initiate talks with the board of the Special Economic Zone in Katowice in order to expand the zone by some 8 hectares. TRW is looking to invest USD 35 million and hire another 600 employees for its two existing factories as well as several dozen more for a new engineering centre to be added to its Częstochowa facility. In the Special Economic Zone in Katowice there are two TRW factories: in Czechowice and in Gliwice. In the factory in Gliwice TRW employed 300 people in 2004.
Sources
27 July 2006: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2006), TRW, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 63822, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63822.
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