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Manufacturing (24 - 25) Manufacture of metals 25.9 - Manufacture of other fabricated metal products 25.99 - Manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c.
15 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 November 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 November 2016
Foreseen end date
1 April 2017
Description
SWEP is a Swedish manufacturer of brazed plate heat exchangers (BPHE). The company has decided to consolidate its activities in Europe. In particular, the production plant in Switzerland's Tentlingen is going to close in order to concentrate production in the other two plants owned by the company in Sweden's Landskron and Slovakia's Kechnec near Kosice. The decision has been taken on 23 November 2016, and the transfer should be completed in the first quarter of 2017. 15 new jobs position should be created in Sweden thanks to this decision.
Eurofound (2016), SWEP, Reshoring in Sweden, factsheet number 146, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/146.