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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 August 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 May 2006
Foreseen end date
Description
The Danish multinational manufacturer of pumps and compressors, Grundfos, has hired 200 new employees to the factory in Bjerringbro during the last months. The reason is lack of workforce in the Danish part of the production. This was not foreseen since during the last years Grundfos has invested great sums in automatisation. All 200 employees are Danish and they are employed on a fixed basis. Grundfos now employs 3900 persons at the factories in Bjerringbro, Aalestrup and Langå. Worldwide, Grundfos has 14,000 employees.
Sources
22 August 2006: Børsen
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Grundfos, Business expansion in Denmark, factsheet number 63941, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63941.
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