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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
1,500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 January 2016
Employment effect (start)
16 January 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
Volkswagen Poznań has announced that it will create 1,500 new jobs at its new factory in Września (Wałbrzych Special Economic Zone, Poland). The factory is expected to be fully operational in October 2016.
In October 2014, the company received a permit for building the factory which will produce a new generation of Volkswagen Crafter. The investment is worth PLN 3.3 million (EUR 0.74 million USD 0.82 million) and will bring 3,000 jobs in total; by the end of 2015, the company created 1,500 jobs there. The plant will produce 100 thousand cars per year.
Eurofound (2016), Volkswagen Poznań, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 86438, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86438.
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