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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28.21 - Manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners
130 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
31 March 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2021
Foreseen end date
31 August 2022
Description
ÖkoFEN, an Austrian pellet heating systems manufacturer, is planning to expand its headquarters in Niederkappel, Austria, creating 130 new jobs. The austrian company is a pioneer in the field of renewable energies and has met an increasing demand in the last years. The expansion of its headquarters has started in April 2021 and is supposed to be finished this summer. The production capacity will be doubled by then, resulting in a total of 50,000 heating systems each year. Leonore Gewessler, the austrian minister of climate protection, has visited the production site and has stated that this is an important step torwards the independence from oil and gas.
ÖkoFEN has eleven company sites around Europe and a total of 800 employees.
Eurofound (2022), ÖkoFEN, Business expansion in Austria, factsheet number 106557, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106557.
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