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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
11 February 2021
Employment effect (start)
1 May 2021
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
ZKW, Austrian manufacturer of car headlights and electronics, will open a development-focused branch in Olomouc at the beginning of May 2021and intends to employ over 100 people by 2023. The firm is currently looking for highly skilled engineers from automotive industry. The management of ZKW decided for Olomouc because there is a university with a department of optics in the city and the Olomouc region has a tradition in the production of car headlights.
ZKW Group is a specialist in innovative, premium lighting systems and electronics and one of the world’s leading strategic partners for international automakers using state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies.
Eurofound (2021), ZKW Czech Republic, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 103533, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103533.
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