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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.9 - Manufacture of transport equipment n.e.c.
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
24 January 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
According to the Director of the Employment, Social Affairs and Family Office in Nove Zamky, Ingrid Ujvariova, around 300 new jobs will be created by the Netherlands Otolift Company in industrial park Palarikovo in several months. Otolift produces stair lifts and chair lifts for people with mobility issues. Ujvariorva said that the new jobs will help to reduce the region's unemployment, which currently stands at about 8%.
Sources
24 January 2016: TERAZ.SK
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Otolift, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 86411, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86411.
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