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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
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 November 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2019
Foreseen end date
31 May 2020
Description
Following the expansion of its manufacture of hi-tech products for the car industry, Hidria plans to hire more than 150 people. The company has closed a contract, worth €300 million, for the 2021-2030 period. It will deliver stators and rotors for the new hybrid and electric vehicles, innovative solutions developed by the company's engineers in cooperation with the National Institute of Chemistry and the Slovenian company Jutronic. BMW and Daimler will start installing their stators and rotors in their vehicles in 2021. The company now employs 2,400 employees.
Eurofound (2019), Hidria, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 99245, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99245.
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