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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
7 October 2011
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2012
Foreseen end date
Description
Ditton Chain, manufacturer of driving chains, opened a reconstructed facility in Daugavpils. Ditton Chain plans to create 120 new jobs by gradually increasing manufacturing output. The timeline for the increase is not yet known.
Ditton Chain is a newly established company deriving from Ditton Driving Chain Factory. The new factory will be used to manufacture high-quality driving chains, which will be exported to the European Union and US.
The reconstruction of the manufacturing facilities included the installation of turning and processing centres, metal processing equipment, high-precision presses, and thermal processing equipment for forging and nitro-cementing.
Sources
7 October 2011: diena.lv
15 October 2011: Rēzeknes Vēstis
10 October 2011: baltic-course.com
7 October 2011: db.lv
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Ditton Chain, Business expansion in Latvia, factsheet number 72748, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72748.
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