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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 June 2015
Employment effect (start)
18 June 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
Dutch truck manufacturer DAF has announced that it is seeking 400 new employees at its plants in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and Westerlo, Belgium. This reflects a planned increase in production to 200 trucks per day from 1 September 2015, up from 174 currently. The jobs will initially be temporary.
The job increases follow an expansion of the workforce at the two plants by a total of 400 earlier this year, in response to increases in production to 156 and then 174 trucks per day.
DAF currently has 9,420 employees.
Sources
18 June 2015: De Morgen
18 June 2015: Omroep Brabant
Citation
Eurofound (2015), DAF, Business expansion in European Union, factsheet number 83837, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83837.
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