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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
600 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 February 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2007
Description
WSK Rzeszów, the largest aviation company in the Podkarpacie region (a subsidiary of the American group UTC), plans to hire 600 new employees in 2007, including at least 400 operators of numerical machine tools. Present employment at WSK Rzeszów is 4,500 persons, including 3,600 workers manning production lines for airplane engine components and making complete powerplants for the F-16 fighter. In 2006, WSK took on 300 new employees.
Sources
22 February 2007: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2007), WSK PZL-Rzeszów, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 64965, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64965.
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