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Manufacturing Repair And Installation Of Machinery And Equipment Repair And Installation Of Machinery And Equipment 33.2 - Installation of industrial machinery and equipment
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 March 2022
Employment effect (start)
8 March 2022
Foreseen end date
30 April 2022
Description
Aquaphor International, an Estonian company manufacturing water filtration system, is to create 200 new jobs in Narva, Estonia. Currently, the company has two plants in Estonia and several plants in the USA and Israel. A new plant is to be built in Narva, and the production from the USA and Israel will be relocated to this plant in April. After relocating production from Israel, in Estonia the production of professional filtration systems for factories and medical facilities will increase ten times. After relocating production from the USA, in Estonia the production of filtration systems for private households will increase four times.
Currently, Aquaphor International employs 650 people.
Eurofound (2022), Aquaphor International, Business expansion in Estonia, factsheet number 106505, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106505.
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