Bombardier Transportation Czech Republic

Type
Business expansion
Country
Czechia
Region
Česko; Severovýchod; Liberecký kraj
Location of affected unit(s)
Česká Lípa
Sector
Manufacturing
(29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment
30.2 - Manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock
30.2 - Manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock
200 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
8 March 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017

Description

Canadian airplane and train manufacturer Bombardier is to expand its train production in the Czech Republic and create about 200 new jobs during 2017. The company won for its Czech plant the significant French contract for railway vehicles.

Bombardier Transportation Czech Republic currently employs over 1,000 people and focuses on components for regional and suburban trains as well as for trams and metros.

Due to the shortage of welders in the market Bombardier builds a vocational welding school for retraining courses, which are organized in cooperation with the labour office, and for regular testing of its own employees.

Sources

  • 8 March 2017: MF Dnes

Citation

Eurofound (2017), Bombardier Transportation Czech Republic, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 90508, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/90508.