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.
Wales; South East Wales; Central Valleys and Bridgend
Location of affected unit(s)
Llantrisant
Sector
Manufacturing (29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment 29.3 - Manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories 29.3 - Manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories
125 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
12 May 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Sogefi, an Italian-owned company which makes filtration equipment for the motor industry is creating 125 jobs in south Wales with an £8 million expansion programme. The Italian-owned company, which employs around 500 in Wales, said the investment would also mean a further 134 jobs will be secured at its Llantrisant factory. That plant, alongside others in Tredegar and Nottingham, make equipment for nearly two-thirds of the UK's cars. This news comes in a period when around 200 jobs have been lost at Welsh firms after MG Rover went into administration in April 2005.
Sources
12 May 2005: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Sogefi, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61650, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/61650.