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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.20 - Manufacture of batteries and accumulators
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 August 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
BMZ Poland, a German producer of batteries for tools, garden equipment and bicycles has announced that it will create 200 new jobs at its factory in Gliwice by the end of 2017. The company is looking for production staff and engineers. The new production hall, which is being built, is expected to be operational in the second quarter of 2017. The company plans to invest EUR 10mn in the project. BMZ Poland will double its overall production by 2020 thanks to the investment.
BMZ was founded in 1994 in Germany; currently, it is one of Europe’s leading providers of systems and solutions for the intelligent mobile energy market and employs over 1,100 people worldwide, including 500 in the plant in Gliwice.
Sources
16 August 2016: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł
Citation
Eurofound (2016), BMZ Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 88411, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88411.
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