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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
350 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 October 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Benteler Automobiltechnik, one of the largest international automotive parts supplier with headquarters in Paderborn, Germany, has opened through its Czech subsidiary Benteler Automotive Rumburk a new plant in Rumburk in the Ústà nad Labem Region. This new project involves an investment of 1.5 billion CZK and will create about 350 job opportunities in the coming years. For the area hit hard with unemployment, this investment is very important. The German company is now represented in the Czech Republic by sites in Strហnad Nisou, Liberec, Chrastava, and Rumburk, where the company employs more than 1,000 people.
Eurofound (2005), Benteler Automotive, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 62438, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62438.
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