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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25.92 - Manufacture of light metal packaging
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 August 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2009
Foreseen end date
30 April 2010
Description
American multinational Crown Holdings are to establish a subsidiary at the Kechnec industrial park near Košice. The company, Crown Bevcan, will create 200 new jobs and produce aluminium cans. The greenfield investment will cost about €40 million and employment in the new production plant is planned to start in June 2009. In total of 775 million aluminium cans for alcoholic and soft drinks will be produced annually at the plant.Company management announced that the production actually started in April 2010 but just 100 new jobs were created there.
Sources
15 March 2010: Hospodárske noviny
27 August 2008: SME
27 August 2008: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Crown Bevcan, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 67104, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67104.
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