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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Basic Metals 24.42 - Aluminium production
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 June 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Canadian Alcan Company decided to establish its European subsidiary in Slovakia in Levice industrial zone Geňa. The decision to invest in Slovakia was announced by Alcan PR manager Mr Alexander Christensen already in January 2006 but the contract on lease of land was signed only recently. Aluminium profiles for central and east European construction and machinery industry will be produced in new production plant, which is a Greenfield investment of SKK 1.12 billion. Around 200 new jobs will be created there in the first stage of the investment. According to the representative of local municipality Mr Štefan Miššák, Italian, French, Swedish and German companies announced their serious interest to run business in that industrial zone, too.
Sources
28 June 2006: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Alcan, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 63704, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63704.
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