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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
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 March 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Gedia Gebrueder Dingerkus, the German manufacturer of pressings and welded assemblies for the automotive industry, has announced that it is to create 500 new jobs by extending its plant in Nowa Sól (in the Kostrzyńsko-Słubicka Special Economic Zone). The company currently employs 890 in Nowa Sól and has 5 plants located in Germany, Spain, and Poland, employing 2,000. As of March 2008 there is no information as to when employment at the plant in Nowa Sól will commence and when the new jobs will be created by.
Sources
20 March 2008: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł Webside (www.wnp.pl)
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Gedia Gebrueder Dingerkus, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 66423, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66423.
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