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Alfod es Eszak; Eszak-Alfold; Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok
Location of affected unit(s)
Szolnok
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.2 - Manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock
230 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 September 2012
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2013
Foreseen end date
Description
Stadler Rail Group will open a new site in the first quarter of 2013, when it will hire 230 new employees. The new unit is currently built in Szolnok.
It is reported that the company’s aim is to increase productivity and develop new technologies. Stadler Rail Group has been present in Hungary since 2009, where it has 350 employees, of which 280 are directly employed by the company and 70 are agency workers.
Sources
26 September 2012: HR Portal
26 September 2012: Menedzser Fórum
27 September 2012: Index
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Stadler Rail, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 74257, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74257.
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