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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
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
12 September 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
Hutchison, a subsidiary of the French group Total, has opened a new site in Łódź that will employ 400 by 2011. The new site will produce precision and anti-vibration seals for the automotive industry. Hutchison also operate another plant in Poland that produces chassis and transmission seals and employs 600. Hutchison products are used in the production of Renault, Audi, BMW and Nissan models.
Sources
12 September 2007: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Hutchison, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 65803, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65803.
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