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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.31 - Manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment for motor vehicles
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 December 2019
Employment effect (start)
3 January 2020
Foreseen end date
31 December 2020
Description
Mahle Electric Drives Slovenija, a car electronics manufacturer, will open more than 100 jobs next year for the increased production of electric drive systems and the new production of engine cooling systems. The company, the former Iskra Avtoelektrika, was bought by the German group Mahle in 2014. It manufactures products for the automotive and mobile hydraulics industries (alternators, starter motors, integrated flywheel starters, mechatronics, electric motors, electronic controllers etc.), supplying producers of passenger cars, commercial vehicles, agricultural and industrial machinery. The majority of new workers will be employed in production work. In Slovenia, Mahle Electric Drives currently employs 1,816 persons in five locations.
Eurofound (2019), Mahle Electric Drives Slovenija, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 99488, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99488.
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