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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28.9 - Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 November 2016
Employment effect (start)
23 November 2016
Foreseen end date
21 November 2017
Description
The Japanese owned company Yaskawa Ristro, a manufacturer of robots based in Ribnica (Jugovzhodna Slovenija region), is going to employ 200 additional workers by the end of 2017. Manfred Stern, the chief executive director of Yaskawa Europe, announced a 25 million euro investment for the construction of a new factory which will meet 80 per cent of the demand for robots in the European markets. The new factory will employ about 200 high-skilled workers, mostly engineers.
Sources
22 November 2016: Delo
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Yaskawa Ristro, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 89147, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89147.
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