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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
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 May 2012
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2013
Foreseen end date
Description
Hitachi, a Japanese engineering concern, plans to create at least 300 new jobs in a plant located in the industrial zone Triangle near the city of Žatec. The plant will be operational in March 2013.
The firm resumes production at its plant after the closure in 2009, when it ceased LCD production. The plant will now produce automotive shock absorbers.
The recruitment of the first 150 new employees is scheduled at the beginning of 2013. Hitachi expects a further expansion of the production in the near future.
Sources
30 May 2012: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Hitachi, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 73652, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73652.
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