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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25.61 - Treatment and coating of metals
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 August 2013
Employment effect (start)
2 January 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
On 14 August 2013, tool producer Fabryka Przyrządów i Uchwytów Bison-Bial announced its plans to create about 120 jobs in the factory of subsidiary company Hartownia Białystok. The new factory is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2014. The production facility is located in the Białystok Special Economic Zone. The investment is worth 57 mln PLN, but the company will receive 38.8 mln PLN public support from the Operational Programme ‘Innovative Economy’.
Fabryka Przyrządów i Uchwytów Bison-Bial was founded 1948 as a state-owned company (privatized in 1998). The company produces workholding equipment such as chucks, vises, milling fixtures.
Eurofound (2013), Hartownia Białystok, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 75779, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75779.
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