Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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.
Global supplier of automotive systems and components, ZF Steering Systems Poland announced the creation 100 jobs at its newly opened Electronics Plant in Częstochowa, Poland. The factory will specialise in the serial production of S-Cam4.8 cameras that offer the capability of a 100-degree horizontal field of view. With a total area of 12,000 square meters, the plant is located on a 69,000 square meter plot of land in the local Katowice Special Economic Zone. The Częstochowa facility is ZF’s first greenfield site in Eastern Europe.
ZF has 260 production units in 41 countries and employs over 147,700 people worldwide. In Poland, ZF operates in seven locations (Bielsko-Biała, Czechiwice-Dziedzice, Częstochowa, Gliwice, Łódź, Wrocław and Warsaw) employing about 8,000 people.
Previous restructuring programmes in Poland: June 2020 (317 jobs cut) and September 2020 (100 jobs created).
Eurofound (2020), ZF Steering Systems Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 102220, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/102220.
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