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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
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 October 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2009
Foreseen end date
Description
Getrag Ford will create about 120 new jobs in Kehnec where it will establish a new logistic and service centre near its plant which manufactures gearboxes. About 300,000 of the modern "PowerShift" gearboxes will be produced at the plant annually from 2010 and therefore adequate space will be required for material entry, sorting and discharge of final products to customers. New investment will amount to Euro 30 million. "Getrag Ford investuje do logistiky".
Sources
3 October 2008: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Getrag Ford Transmissions, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 67184, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67184.
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