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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.51 - Manufacture of electric domestic appliances
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 October 2020
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2020
Foreseen end date
31 January 2021
Description
Hisense Gorenje, the home appliance manufacturer (producer of refrigerators, kitchen stoves, washing, drying, dish-washing machines), announced the opening of the new TV factory in Velenje and the employment of 400 workers. The new factory, producing televisions for the European market, will start to work in January 2021.
The company will first offer job opportunities on the internal labour market within Hisense Europe and then to external job seekers. The training of 330 workers will begin on 15 December 2020, in January 2021 the total workforce will amount to 400 persons including professionals. In the first year, the output will attain the production of two million televisions per year. It will then increase to four million televisions per year until 2023.
Eurofound (2020), Hisense Gorenje, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 102082, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/102082.
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