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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32 - Other manufacturing
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 April 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2009
Foreseen end date
Description
On 17 April Greiner Bio-One announced the creation of about 100 jobs, to be in place in February 2009, when the first phase of its new production plant and R&D centre in Freidstadt will be completed. An additional 200 employees will be recruited in the mid-term. The investment for the new plant will amount to € 30 million and the construction will start in May 2008. The family-owned corporation, which is headquartered in Kremsmünster in Upper Austria, specialises in biotechnology, diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries as well as in medical and in-vitro diagnostics. It employs some 1,300 workers worldwide, of which 395 work at its headquarters in Kremsmünster.
Sources
17 April 2008: Der Standard
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Greiner Bio-One International, Business expansion in Austria, factsheet number 66567, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66567.
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