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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
450 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 September 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
American company Dura Automotive Systems, the world's largest designer and manufacturer of driver control systems, and a leading global supplier of seating control systems, engineered assemblies, structural door modules and other automotive parts, is to expand the production of automotive parts in its Czech subsidiary in Kopřivnice and thus to increase the current workforce from 450 to 900 workers. Dura has built a new assembly hall investing 140 million CZK (5 million EUR).
Sources
8 September 2006: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Dura Automotive, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 64029, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64029.
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