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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29 - Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers
672 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 October 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2011
Description
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck Europe (MFTE) of the Daimler group, announced an investment of EUR 20 million in its Tramagal plant and the creation of 672 new jobs by 2011. MFTE has recently bought a land nearby Tramagal (57.600 square meters) from the municipality of Abrantes at a symbolic price of 0,50 EUR per square meter. The enlarged plant at Tramagal will produce a new model of the Canter truck.
Sources
23 October 2008: Público
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Mitsubishi Fuso Truck Europe, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 67314, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67314.
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