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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 November 2010
Employment effect (start)
18 November 2010
Foreseen end date
31 December 2011
Description
On 18 November 2010 Arkadiusz Aszyk, a board member of Stocznia Gdańska, announced company's plans to hire from 200 to 400 production workers in 2011. Stocznia Gdańska, a company specialising in ship manufacture, diversifies its production activities. The company started to produce wind farms and other steel constructions. The yard's newly-launched wind-tower construction facility provides jobs for 87 workers and according to Arkadiusz Aszyk number of workers will rise to around 250 within 2 years. The board member also said that in three or four years the ship yard expects to have around 2,000 shipbuilding workers and another 550 involved in other activities. At the moment, the company employs around 1,700 people including 900 shipbuilding production workers.
Sources
18 November 2010: Puls Biznesu ()
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Stocznia Gdańska, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 71553, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71553.
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