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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.51 - Manufacture Of Electric Domestic Appliances
No information on job gains number available
Announcement Date
14 February 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
Steelco is an Italian company producing medical washer, disinfectors and sterilizers. It was acquired in 2017 by the German group Miele. In Spring 2018, the company opened a new plant in Italy (Riese Pio X) to backs-shore production activities it has been offshored in Austria and Germany in the last decades. The investment in the new plant will permit the company to hire around 60 new people.
Eurofound (2018), Steelco, Reshoring in Italy, factsheet number 19, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/19.
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