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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 August 2016
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Volvo Cars has announced plans to hire 400 new engineers. Most of the new staff will be placed in Gothenburg in the Volvo Cars R&D office, but 35 will be placed in Lund in a brand new R&D centre.
The aim of the expansion is to increase the capacity for software development. Much attention will be paid to the development of self-driving cars (in collaboration with Uber), active security and electrification. A spokesperson for the company described the expansion as 'the biggest recruitment campaign in the company's 89-year history'.
Sources
30 August 2016: Svenska Dagbladet
30 August 2016: Ny Teknik
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Volvo Cars, Business expansion in Sweden, factsheet number 88407, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88407.
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