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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 November 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2009
Foreseen end date
Description
ZF Passau, a German gearbox supplier of agricultural machinery, is to set up a new plant in the industrial area of Staňkov city (near Plzeň) with the creation of up to 300 new jobs. The employment of about 60 people will commence in January 2009 and 200 workers are to be employed at the plant by the end of 2010. The company currently employs about 55,000 people in 120 factories worldwide.
Sources
19 November 2008: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2008), ZF Passau, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 67408, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67408.
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