Type
Business expansion
Country
Bulgaria
Region
Yuzhna Bulgaria; Yuzhen tsentralen; Stara Zagora
Location of affected unit(s)
Stara Zagora
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products
Manufacture Of Basic Metals
24.42 - Aluminium production

200 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
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.