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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Basic Metals 24.5 - Casting of metals
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 September 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
Spanish metallurgical firm Funderia Condals is to create 300 new jobs in the next two years. The company is developing a factory, SK C Foundry, in Sturovo industrial park, after two unsuccessful attempts in East Slovakia.. The factory will make metal castings for automotive producers and its annual production is planned to be initially 5,000 tons of castings, with a view to increase it to 15,000 tons. According to a representative of Funderia output will begin in the second quarter of 2016.
Funderia Condals' main customer in Slovakia is Continental, based in Zvolen, but it also supplies Audi and BMW in Germany.
Sources
8 September 2015: TREND
19 August 2015: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2015), SK C Foundry, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 84759, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/84759.
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