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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Basic Metals 24.2 - Manufacture of tubes, pipes, hollow profiles and related fittings, of steel
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 November 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2007
Description
Italy’s Marcegaglia is going to build a new plant in Kluczbork (in the Wałbrzych Special Economic Zone), manufacturing steel pipes. The company plans to hire 400 people by the end of 2007. Marcegaglia has already got a plant in Praszka, where 40 people are employed.
According to the information of 21.05.2007. Marcegaglia is planning to increase its investment in Kluczbork, expending 250 million EUR on a new factory (rather than 40 million EUR, as originally planned). The new plant will commence production in 2008, and it will have a workforce of 1,000 persons.
Sources
3 November 2006: Puls Biznesu
21 May 2007: Polska Agencja Informacji i Inwestycji Zagranicznych Webside
Eurofound (2006), Marcegaglia, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 64363, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64363.
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