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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
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 August 2007
Employment effect (start)
21 August 2007
Foreseen end date
1 January 2009
Description
Johann A. Krause Polska, a firm that produces a range of components for the automotive industry, is to increase employment by 300 at its plant in Gdańsk. The firm is a part of the German group Thyssen Krupp AG, and currently employs 125 at the site in Gdańsk. The Gdańsk factory produces parts such as drives, transmissions, and axles for automobiles, and the increase in employment will take place between 2007 and the start of 2009.
Eurofound (2007), Johann A. Krause Polska, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 65709, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65709.
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