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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32.5 - Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 July 2021
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2021
Foreseen end date
Description
US healthcare firm Medline plans to create 300 jobs at its new plant for production of sterile surgical kits for hospitals in Partizanske. The company will relocate its current production and the 200 employees from Banovce nad Bebravou. The investment is worth around €26 million. The firm has already started with recruitment and plans to start production in the first quarter of 2022. The company also intends to build another production hall with a distribution centre and to invest in R&D.
Eurofound (2021), Medline, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 105122, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105122.
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