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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 April 2018
Employment effect (start)
26 April 2018
Foreseen end date
26 April 2021
Description
Forklift manufacturer Combilift is creating 200 new jobs over the next three years.
The new jobs will be for skilled technicians, design engineers, logistics and supply chain specialists. The company is also looking for recruits with mechanical and electrical mechatronics skills.
Combilift currently employs 550 people, having expanded by 230 since 2015.
The company was formed 20 years ago and exports to 89 countries.
Sources
26 April 2018: Irish Independent
26 April 2018: Silicon Republic.com
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Combilift, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 93879, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93879.
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