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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
7 November 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
US(New Jersey)-based company Ingersoll Rand, a leading diversified industrial company providing products, services and integrated solutions to industries ranging from transportation and manufacturing to food retailing, construction and agriculture, is to build its second manufacturing facility in DobřÚ. The investment amounting to CZK 700 million will create up to 300 new jobs over the next years. The company has been operating here since 2001. Its main products are loaders and excavators of the Bobcat brand. The training centre of the Bobcat brand is also planned to be shifted from Belgium to DobřÚ and to provide services to customers from Europe, Far East and Africa.
Sources
7 November 2006: CzechInvest
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 64394, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64394.
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