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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
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 September 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
Varroc Lighting Systems (VLS), supplier of exterior lighting for passenger cars and commercial vehicles, has opened a fifth production hall at its Rychvald factory in the Czech Republic. The business expansion is to offer work to 200 new employees with both secondary and tertiary education. Once the new hall is fully operational, Rychvald’s headcount will rise to around 800.
Varroc Lighting Systems employs more than 3,000 workers in the Czech Republic. Varroc also has production plants in China, India, Mexico, Morocco, Turkey and Vietnam, as well as technical centres around the globe. The company previously restructured in 2016, when it created 400 jobs in its three sites in the Czech Republic (Nový Jičín, Rychvald and Ostrava), and in 2015, when it created 200 jobs in the same sites.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Varroc Lighting Systems (VLS), Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 95628, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95628.
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