Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Gold Cup Electric Apparatus, a Chinese company and a leading global manufacturer of electrical wires and cables, announced a major business expansion through the construction of its first European production plant in Planá u Mariánských Lázní in the Czech Republic. The new facility will manufacture magnetic conductors used in transformers, electric motors and equipment linked to renewable energy and electric mobility.
Production at the new plant is scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2026, with an initial annual capacity of around 8,000 tonnes. Recruitment of the first 70 employees is already underway. Employment is expected to increase gradually as production ramps up, reaching around 200 employees by 2028, when the plant is planned to operate at full capacity.
The Planá factory will be a modern operation focused on the production of magnetic conductors for transformers, electric motors and equipment using renewable energy sources in the new energy sector.
Gold Cup Electric Apparatus was founded in 1999 in the Chinese city of Changsha. The company employs 5,000 people and its products are exported to more than 35 countries. The project reflects growing demand in Europe for high-efficiency electric motors and transformers and forms part of Gold Cup Electric Apparatus’s global expansion strategy.
Eurofound (2025), Gold Cup Electric Apparatus, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 203832, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203832.
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