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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
122 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 September 2021
Employment effect (start)
14 September 2021
Foreseen end date
Description
Global supplier of automotive systems and components, ZF Steering Systems Poland, has announced that it will create 122 new jobs at its engineering centres and electronics plants across Poland. The company is looking for electronics and IT engineers. The source reports that the company has invested more than €300 million in the country.
ZF has 260 production units in 41 countries and employs over 147,700 people worldwide. In Poland, ZF operates in seven locations (Bielsko-Biała, Czechowice-Dziedzice, Częstochowa, Gliwice, Łódź, Wrocław and Warsaw) employing about 10,000 people.
Previous restructuring programmes in Poland: June 2020 (317 jobs cut), September 2020 (100 jobs created) and October 2020 (100 jobs created).
Eurofound (2021), ZF Steering Systems Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 105360, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105360.
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