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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 June 2019
Employment effect (start)
27 June 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
Spanish car components manufacturer Gestamp opened a new production plant in Nitriansky Industrial Park, Slovakia. The investment of €133 million, of which €9 million came from the government through state aid, will create 200 jobs in the plant. The proximity to the production lines of Jaguar Land Rover, which is the company's main customer, motivated the decision to open the new plant. The establishment will produce bodywork and chassis parts for the Discovery and later the Defender models. More than 70% of the production will be aluminium parts. According to Gestamp CEO, this is the company's biggest unit for production of aluminium components and the company's second plant in Slovakia. The other site, operated by its subsidiary Edscha, employs 170 people and operates in Velky Meder since 2010.
Eurofound (2019), Gestamp, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 98086, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98086.
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