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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28.29 - Manufacture of other general-purpose machinery n.e.c.
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 March 2019
Employment effect (start)
13 March 2019
Foreseen end date
30 September 2019
Description
Krones Hungary, a subsidiary of the leading European packaging and bottling machine manufacturer Krones AG, is building a new plant in the city of Debrecen. According to the plans, the production unit will begin its operation in September 2019.
By then, the company aims to hire 500 workers. To this end, the firm has launched a career and communication centre in the city and it has also established close links with the local university and vocational schools. The company is looking for CNC programmers, turners, milling machine operators, engineers, IT professionals, among others.
The Debrecen plant will be the first production facility of Krones AG outside Germany. The investment cost is roughly €48 million.
Eurofound (2019), Krones Hungary Kft., Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 97471, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97471.
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