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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 March 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
On 29 March 2017, German truck and bus manufacturer MAN Truck & Bus announced to create some 200 new jobs at the company's production site in Salzgitter.
The new assembly line for non-driven axle production is a cooperation between the MAN Truck & Bus and the Swedish automotive industry manufacturer Scania. MAN Truck & Bus invested €30 million in the project. This assembly line is part of the future programme PACE2017 and will start in 2018.
MAN Truck & Bus currently employs 35,371 staff members worldwide.
Sources
29 March 2017: MAN press release
30 March 2017: Salzgitter.de
Citation
Eurofound (2017), MAN Truck & Bus, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 90704, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90704.
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