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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 December 2016
Employment effect (start)
15 March 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
German producer of components for the automotive industry Ideal Automotive has announced that it will create 200 jobs at its new production facility in Zielona Góra (Lubusz Industrial and Technological Park, Poland) by the end of 2017. The factory is expected to be operational on 15th March 2017 and it will produce textile cladding components for vehicles interior. Ideal Automotive revealed that some employees are currently trained at the company’s factory in Slovakia.
Currently, the company employs more than 4,000 people in 16 locations (Germany, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Mexico and China).
Sources
2 December 2016: Łącznik Zielonogórki
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Ideal Automotive, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 89636, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89636.
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