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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25 - Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 October 2010
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2011
Foreseen end date
31 December 2011
Description
On 29 October 2010, HMS Poland, a producer of platform gratings, announced plans to hire additional 150 workers in 2011. The company intends to expand its plant in Wykroty by Bolesławiec (in the Kamienna Góra Special Economic Zone) and plans to enlarge the production space from 2,000 to 10,000 square meters.
Sources
29 October 2010: Evertiq ()
Citation
Eurofound (2010), HMS Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 71390, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71390.
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