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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
31 January 2020
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2020
Foreseen end date
31 December 2020
Description
The Finnish MSK Group, a producer of intelligent cabins for transport systems, plans to expand its production in Slovakia generating 130 new manufacturing positions by the end of 2020. The company plans to build a new production hall in Sabinov - a region with high unemployment in East Slovakia. MSK will make the factory in Sabinov highly competitive by installing new technologies. The company has already started the recruiting process.
The unit currently operates in leased units in the Lipany industrial park, where it specialises in the assembly of cabins for different mechanisms, welding and coating.
Eurofound (2020), MSK Slovakia, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 99782, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99782.
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