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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
800 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 January 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
The American company Flextronics plans to build a EUR 38 million factory of electromechanical components for the electronics industry in Tczew (in the Pomorska Special Economic Zone). Flextronics already employs 3,000 persons in Poland. It will initially hire 800 new workers for the Tczew plant over the first two years and eventually in the next years the number of employees will reach 1,500.
Sources
26 January 2007: Puls Biznesu
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Flextronics, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 64832, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64832.
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