Type
Business expansion
Country
Slovenia
Region
Slovenija; Savinjska;
Location of affected unit(s)
Vransko
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products
Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment
27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment

100 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
12 May 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2010
Foreseen end date
1 January 2010

Description

Kapis, the cable and wire producer based in the Savinjska region, is to create about 100 jobs. The company, which makes insulated cables and wires, power cables for energy supply, halogen free and fire resistant cables and overhead conductors, announced its decision to build new facilities worth 25 million euro in Vransko to produce 20-kilovolt cables. By the beginning of 2010, the 20 employees already working in the headquarters in Petrovče will be moved to the new location, plus approximately 80 new production jobs will be created. Altogether there will be 100 employees in the new location.

Existing production facilities with are based in Bosnia and Herzegovina and employ 210 persons.


Sources

  • 12 May 2008: Delo

Citation

Eurofound (2008), Kapis, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 66612, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66612.