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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
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 October 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
28 February 2009
Description
Kamax, the Germany-based company, has decided to join the companies producing components for the automotive industry and operating in Eastern Slovakia. Kamax will establish its subsidiary in Bardejov industrial park. Around EUR 12 million will be invested there in order to establish a new production plant before the end of 2007. Special screws and metal joints for motor vehicles will be produced there in the first stage. Full production capacity is planned to be reached in 2009 when more than 200 employees would work there.
Sources
6 October 2006: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Kamax, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 68472, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68472.
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