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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
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
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://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86474.
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