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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 September 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2008
Foreseen end date
Description
Nissens, a Danish firm that produces machinery, is to create 150 new jobs at its site in Čachtice. The new investment will amount to a figure of approximately 150 million SKK, and it is expected that the new jobs will be created by the start of 2008. The firm has operated in Čachtice since 2005, and currently employs 150 at the plant. Nissens produces cooling and ventilation equipment for wind mills, buses, and construction and forestry machinery at its site in Čachtice. Most of the production at the plant is exported to eighteen countries in Europe, Asia and the United States. According to Stanislava Psotová, a HR manager at the Čachtice plant, Nissens also intends to expand production further over the next few years.
Sources
3 September 2007: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Nissens, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 65770, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65770.
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