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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
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 August 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Japanese car-maker Suzuki has struck a deal with Japanese company Toyo Seat for the construction of a HUF 2 billion seat factory in Nyergesújfalu, north of Budapest. Toyo Seat produces automobile seats, soft tops for convertibles, mechanical products, automotive exhaust pipes, door trims, etc. The plant will consist of a 7,000 square metre production unit with capacity of up to 1.2 million seats per year by 2008 and would employ 200 workers. The company is to supply car seats to Suzuki's plant in Esztergom. Toyo Seat has an existing plant in Szazhalombatta, south of Budapest, which employs 830 people and supplies, among others, Suzuki with seat frames.
Sources
10 August 2006: Budapest Sun
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Toyo Seat, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 64669, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64669.
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