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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
110 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 August 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 May 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
Mecaplast Slovakia, owned by the Netherlands-based Mecaplast International, is to establish a new production plant nearby PSA Peugeot-Citroen factory in Trnava. With an investment worth €50 million, the company will create 110 new jobs as of May 2016. Additional 40 jobs may be created in 2017. The new facility will produce plastic car components mainly for PSA, but also Volkswagen and BMW.
Sources
10 August 2015: Pravda
10 August 2015: Webnoviny
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Mecaplast Slovakia, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 84462, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/84462.
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