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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28.13 - Manufacture of other pumps and compressors
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 January 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
The French subsidiary of the Japanese group Sanden, has announced the recruitment of about 100 workers on permanent employment contracts in 2017 at its site of Tinténiac (Ille et Vilaine) near Rennes. Last September, the management already announced that they were going to recruit about 100 employees over the coming months. Since then, the workforce has increased from 850 to 950 permanent employees. The site currently has 950 employees on permanent employment contracts and 250 temporary workers. Sanden announced a new investment of €25 million to create a new production line of compressor for thermic vehicles but also hybrid and electric cars. The turnover raised from €195.9 million in 2015 to €249.6 million in 2016. The site expect to increase its production of 300,000 compressors to 600,000 by 2018 for the French market but also on international markets.
Sources
19 January 2017: L'usine Nouvelle
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Sanden Manufacturing Europe, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 89808, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89808.
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