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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Wood And Paper Materials Manufacture Of Paper And Paper Products 17.21 - Manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard and of containers of paper and paperboard
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
12 November 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
The Belgian packaging manufacturer, VPK announced an investment of 15 million euro for a new plant located at Salonta, with 200 new jobs in the next two years.In present the company has 50 employees at Salonta plant.The Belgian group has 26 sites in 12 European countries and hire 3,000 persons. The turnover of the group in 2007 was 617 million euro.
Sources
13 November 2008: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2008), VPK Packaging Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 67498, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67498.
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