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Manufacturing (28) Manufacture of machinery and equipment 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 February 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
Daedong, a Korean producer of tractors, rice transplanters, power tillers and engines, has announced that it is to create 200 new jobs following the development of a brake line factory in Cieszyn (south of Poland) which will supply the automobile plants of Kia and Hyundai. The factory will begin operations with 100 employees; another 100 jobs will be created by late 2009. As of February 2008, there is no information as to when employment at the new factory will commence.
Sources
25 February 2008: Dziennik Zachodni
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Daedong, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 66374, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/66374.