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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
750 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
6 September 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2020
Description
German car manufacturer Volkswagen announced plans to dismiss up to 750 employees from its sites in Poznań, Swarzędz and Września by the end of 2020. The company aims at investing around PLN 2 billion (€464 million) in the expansion and modernization of its Poznań van factory in 2019 and 2020. Among others, resources are allocated to increase the level of automation level in the plant from the current 42% to 80%, with 450 new robots to be assembled in the welding unit. The investment is expected to affect all three factories operating in the region as well as both production and administrative positions.
Eurofound (2019), Volkswagen, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 98597, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98597.
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