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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 January 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2005
Description
Japanese producer of silicon carbide diesel particulate filters NGK Ceramics Polska expands its investment in Poland. The total value of the investment in the Gliwice plant will exceed € 150 million. Thanks to the new project new jobs will be created and thus employment in the factory will exceed 1,000 people at the end of 2005.
The production of Silicon Carbide Diesel Particulate Filter is directed mostly at European automotive suppliers, such as German automotive OEM manufacturers.
Sources
13 April 2005: Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency
28 January 2005: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2005), NGK Corporation, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 61093, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61093.
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