Witte Access Technology

Type
Business expansion
Country
Czechia
Region
Česko; Střední Čechy; Středočeský kraj
Location of affected unit(s)
Ostrov
Sector
Manufacturing
(29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment
29.3 - Manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories
29.3 - Manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories
500 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
6 February 2016
Employment effect (start)
31 March 2016
Foreseen end date
1 January 2018

Description

Witte Access Technology, a company specialising in automotive engineering, is to employ 500 new workers by 2018 in a newly built plant in the Ostrov industrial zone. The production of locking and security systems will start in late March 2016. Over 200 people are expected to be employed there by the end of 2016.

Witte Automotive, the second largest employer in the region, operates its main manufacturing plant in Nejdek with about 4,000 staff.

Sources

  • 6 February 2016: MF Dnes

Citation

Eurofound (2016), Witte Access Technology, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 86474, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/86474.