The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28.93 - Manufacture of machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing
140 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 January 2020
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2020
Foreseen end date
Description
Konplan, a Czech subsidiary of a German packaging and bottling machine manufacturer, is to open a new development and office centre in the Pilsen industrial and commercial zone Borská pole and to employ about 140 people in March 2020. Koplan currently employs 160 people at its Pilsen site. The newly built centre cost CZK 200 million (€7.9 million as at 17 January 2020).
Krones, headquartered in Neutraubling (Germany), is the world's leading manufacturer of lines for filling beverages in plastic and glass bottles or beverage cans. Globally, the company employs 1,800 people.
Eurofound (2020), Konplan, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 99657, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99657.
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