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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
170 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 June 2011
Employment effect (start)
20 June 2011
Foreseen end date
25 July 2011
Description
Pittsburgh Glass Works, a manufacturer of automotive glass, will be opening a factory in Komorowice near Środa Śląska creating 170 jobs.
The factory is still in construction and it will be completed in August 2011, as production will start in Spring 2012. Recruitment for the site has already started in fact, the company has already hired managerial and technical staff who are currently participating in trainings in USA, while the company is currently recruiting staff in logistics, manufacturing and in the warehouse and maintenance departments.
The company plans to invests about 200 million PLN.Pittsburgh Glass Works is an American company, which employs more than 4,000 people worldwide.
Sources
20 June 2011: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł ()
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Pittsburgh Glass Works, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 72107, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72107.
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