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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 October 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
A US car seats manufacturer Lear Corporation Seating Slovakia will expand its production in Voderady, where it produces car seats for PSA Group in a 10,000 m2 leased assembly hall at the CTP industrial park. In November 2017 the company will lease another production hall of 14,000 m2 which will create over 400 new jobs. The hall will be used to assemble car seats for Jaguar and Land Rover.
Sources
2 November 2017: SME
24 October 2017: Webnoviny.sk
23 October 2017: Zoznam.sk
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Lear Corporation Seating Slovakia, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 92398, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92398.
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