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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles
50 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 January 2016
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
French-owned car industry supplier, Bourbon Automotive Plastics (BAP), is to create around 50 new jobs at its factory in Caba nearby Nitra in 2016. The company specialises in thermoplastic injection and design, injection moulding and assembly of plastic auto parts. It plans to invest into building a new moulding hall with three new injection machines and a new warehousing hall. In 2015, BAP increased the number of employees in Caba by 80 people and increased the profit from €3.3milion in 2014 to €5.5million.
Sources
28 January 2016: TREND
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Bourbon Automotive Plastics, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 86412, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86412.
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