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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
132 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 November 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
US-owned producer of car seats, Lear Corporation Seating Slovakia will create an additional 132 new jobs. At the beginning of 2016 it will relocate the factory in Senec assembling car seats to a new production unit in the industrial zone in Voderady, however this  business expansion is attributed to a new contract. This case is one of several expansions in the automotive industry in Slovakia.    Â
Sources
30 November 2015: ETrend
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Lear Corporation Seating Slovakia, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 85820, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85820.
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