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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32 - Other manufacturing
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 May 2010
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
On May 6, 2010 Austrian biomedical firm Greiner Bio-One announced the creation of 100 jobs by the end of the year.
Greiner Bio-One is investing € 60 million in its seven sites world-wide (Austria, Germany, United States, Brasil, Hungary and Thailand) this year. The biggest single investment of € 27 million will be made in the two plants in Kremsmünster and Rainbach/Mühlviertel in Upper Austria where the 100 new recruits are to work.
The family-owned corporation with its headquarters in Kremsmünster in Upper Austria specialises in biotechnology, diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries as well as in medical and in-vitro diagnostics. It currently employs some 1,500 workers worldwide, of which 500 are employed in Austria.
Eurofound (2010), Greiner Bio-One International, Business expansion in Austria, factsheet number 70506, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70506.
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