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; West Wales and The Valleys; Central Valleys
Location of affected unit(s)
Llantrisant
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
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://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61650.
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