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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Basic Metals 24.4 - Manufacture of basic precious and other non-ferrous metals
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 December 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2023
Foreseen end date
30 September 2023
Description
Elemental Strategic Metals, a company that extracts metals out of used batteries from electronic equipment, has announced it will open a new plant in Zawiercie, where it will create 150 new jobs. The recruitment campaign will be aimed at filling various roles for technical and administrative staff. The plant will become operational in the third quarter of 2023 and recruitment will take place alongisde the construction process.
The new plant, which will specialise in secondary production of metals, including lithium and cobalt, and precious metals such as platinum, palladium and rhodium, is part of a PLN 380,000,000 battery recycling investment plan co-financed through the European Regional Development Fund.
Eurofound (2022), Elemental Strategic Metals, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 108147, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/108147.
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