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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
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 October 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
GKN Driveline Poland, a subsidiary of the British GKN group, opened the new forging plant in Oleśnica, where metal joints for cars will be produced. The company has already invested in Poland €75 million. The new forging plant is situated in the direct neighbourhood of the GKN Driveline Polska plant in Oleśnica which was built in 1999. Over 410 people are employed there and the plant's customers are: Volvo, Fiat, VW, Toyota, PSA and Ford and other plants of GKN Driveline. Nearly half of the forging plant output will be used locally by the manufacturing plant at Oleśnica for Toyota, PSA and Fiat/Opel programmes, and the remaining production will be used by GKN Driveline elsewhere in Europe.
Eurofound (2005), GKN Driveline, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 62577, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62577.
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