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The Swedish company Mölnlycke Health Care, headquartered in Gothenburg, which produces medical surgical sets, will start production at its new factory in Havirov in May 2017 and hire a further of 200 new workers by the end of 2017. In 2018, the staff should increase to 300. The firm wants to employ mainly women who should make up 70 percent of all workers in the plant.
The value of the investment is expected to reach nearly CZK1.6 billion (EUR 59 million). The company has been operating in the region since 2002.
Globally, Mölnlycke Health Care, a leader in the manufacture of surgical devices for single use, operates in 90 countries and employs 7,400 people.
Eurofound (2017), Mölnlycke Health Care, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 90178, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/90178.