The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
East (England); Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Peterborough
Location of affected unit(s)
Peterborough
Sector
Manufacturing (28) Manufacture of machinery and equipment 28.1 - Manufacture of general-purpose machinery 28.11 - Manufacture of engines and turbines, except aircraft, vehicle and cycle engines
175 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 April 2015
Employment effect (start)
8 April 2015
Foreseen end date
30 April 2018
Description
Peterborough based Perkins Engines has announced that it is to create 175 new jobs. New jobs are available straight away and will continue to be added over a three year period. The jobs come as a result of a 13 million GBP government and industry grant to develop off-highway diesel engine technology. The project is being led by by the Peterborough site in partnership with Desno International. based in Coventry, CMCL innovations in Cambridge as well as Loughborough University and Imperial College, London.
Sources
8 April 2015: Insider Media
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Perkins Engines, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 79366, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/79366.
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