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Manufacturing Repair And Installation Of Machinery And Equipment Repair And Installation Of Machinery And Equipment 33.2 - Installation of industrial machinery and equipment
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
12 December 2013
Employment effect (start)
30 June 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
Manufacturer of mechanical pressure gauges WIKA Poland subsidiary of the WIKA group, is to create 300 new jobs at its new production hall in Włocławek. As reported, the facility will be operational by mid-2014 and the recruitment of the new staff will start in the first quarter of 2014.
As announced, the company is looking mainly for welders, fitters and machine setters. The company has been operating in Poland since 2000 and it has a factory in Włocławek employing 1,000 people.
Sources
13 December 2013: Pomeranian Special Economic Zone
12 December 2013: Dzień Dobry Włocławek
Citation
Eurofound (2013), WIKA Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 76375, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76375.
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