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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 November 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2008
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
Lohr Industrie, a French manufacturer of trains and rolling stock, has announced that it is to create 300 new jobs in Duppigheim. The jobs will be created between January 2008 and December 2009, and follows the firm announcing that it is to develop a new cargo transport linking Biarritz and Lille. The new jobs will be involved in the production of trains and rolling stock. Lohr Industrie employs 1,300 in France.
Sources
21 November 2007: Ouest-France
21 November 2007: Le Figaro
20 November 2007: AFP
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Lohr Industrie, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 66038, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66038.
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