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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products And Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products 22 - Manufacture of rubber and plastic products
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 January 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2007
Foreseen end date
31 December 2008
Description
Zanini Industries, Italian company, started the production in its subsidiary in Slovakia. New production unit, which spreads over 2,500 square meters, is located in TopolÄany industrial zone. Zanini will produce plastic elements for automotive industry there. In the first stage of the business plan, the company management has invested around € 2 million into reconstruction of the existing production facilities and modern technology. Around 250 new jobs will be created in the production plant in the next two years. The production will be supplied to Fiat subsidiaries in Poland and PSA Peugeot Citroen production plant in Trnava in Slovakia.
Sources
29 January 2007: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Zanini Industries, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 64847, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64847.
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