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Construction Construction Of Buildings And Infrastructure Engineering Civil Engineering 42 - Civil engineering
480 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 March 2006
Employment effect (start)
22 May 2006
Foreseen end date
1 January 2007
Description
PB Panel Construct, a Romanian - German manufacturer of building materials, has started to build a new manufacturing plant for polystyrenes lumber-core plywood.
Located in Călan (Hunedoara, West region) the new production centre will be operational in two months time and will serve mainly the Romanian market. By the summer, the new plant will have created 300 jobs and by the beginning of 2007, a further increase in the number of jobs of 60% (180 people) is foreseen.
Sources
22 March 2006: Economistul
Citation
Eurofound (2006), PB Panel Construct, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 63197, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63197.
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