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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 April 2018
Employment effect (start)
3 April 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
German truck manufacturer MAN Trucks has announced that it will create 150 new jobs at its production facility in Niepołomice (Niepołomice Investment Zone, Poland). The company is to create positions in logistics and production departments. The restructuring programme is associated with the launching of a two-shift system in the factory.
In Poland, MAN has been operating since 1996; it has three factories in the country (Niepołomice, Kraków and Starachowice). MAN Trucks has been operating in Niepołomice since October 2007; it specializes in the production of heavy utility vehicles. It currently employs about 550 people in this site.
Sources
3 April 2018: Strefa Biznesu
Citation
Eurofound (2018), MAN Trucks, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 93730, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93730.
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