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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
19 September 2006
Employment effect (start)
26 September 2006
Foreseen end date
Description
Alkoa Packaging Bulgaria will open its first factory on 26 September 2006 in Stara Zagora. The company is the branch of Alkoa Inc., which is the world's biggest aluminium company and Bulgaria is its 45 destination. The new factory, where some 200 jobs are to be created, will produce the household goods. Thus Bulgaria will become the production and logistics centre for Europe and the Middle East. The new plant will meet the high technological as well as working conditions standards.
Sources
20 September 2006: Pari
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Alkoa Packaging Bulgaria, Business expansion in Bulgaria, factsheet number 64143, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64143.
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