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European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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The Walloon specialist in cancer treatment IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA ) is to take on 400 new employees to install and maintain its successful proton therapy systems. The majority of the new employees will be so-called ‘field service engineers’. Some 200 of the new employees will be employed at the headquarters in Louvain-la-Neuve. The remainder will be divided across the USA, Europe and Asia. IBA is the world’s leading provider of proton therapy solutions for the treatment of cancer. It started out as a spin-off from the Catholic University of Louvain and recorded annual turnover of over €200m in 2014.
Eurofound (2016), Ion Beam Applications, Business expansion in Belgium, factsheet number 86404, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/86404.