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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
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 September 2015
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
Simoldes Plasticos, Portuguese supplier of automotive plastic parts, is to create about 300 new jobs at a newly built plant in Rychnov nad Kněžnou. For the investment of CZK 800 million (around EURO 29.5 millions), the company has chosen a strategic location in an industrial zone near the Škoda Auto Kvasiny plant. The foreign investor benefited from a state incentive. Recruitment of new employees is underway.
Sources
30 September 2015: Právo -severovýchodní Čechy (www.pravo.cz )
Eurofound (2015), Simoldes Plasticos, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 85139, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85139.
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