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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
140 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 December 2016
Employment effect (start)
20 December 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
The automaker ŠKODA AUTO expands its production capacity in its main factory in Mladá Boleslav and will create 140 new jobs with the launch of a new high-tech production hall (press line PXL II ) on 20 December 2016. The new press line for aluminium body parts is part of the company's environmental strategy “Green Future”, focusing on ecological and resource-friendly production. The production line ranks among the most modern facilities of its kind in Central Europe.
Sources
19 December 2016: Čianews
Citation
Eurofound (2016), ŠKODA AUTO, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 89648, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89648.
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