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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
145 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 May 2013
Employment effect (start)
21 January 2014
Foreseen end date
1 June 2014
Description
German automotive and defence equipment supplier Rheinmetall will create 145 jobs in its site in Unterlüß (Lower Saxony). The new production line is planned to be operational from the beginning of 2014. The total workforce at the site is expected to go up to 1,450 people by mid-2014.
Eurofound (2013), Rheinmetall, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 75487, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75487.
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