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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
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
24 November 2016
Employment effect (start)
15 December 2016
Foreseen end date
30 September 2017
Description
Electropoli Poland, a part of French group Electropoli, has announced that it will create between 100 and 120 jobs at its new production facility in Nowa Sól (Kostrzyn Special Economic Zone, Poland) by the end of August 2017. The company has revealed that 30 positions have been already created and the hired employees are being trained at the company’s plant in Bielsko-Biała, Poland.
The plant, which will mainly apply anti-corrosion coatings for automotive components, will be operational in mid-December 2016 and it will provides its services to brands such as Opel, Toyota, Volkswagen, Ford, Mercedes, Suzuki, BMW, Iveco, Man, Skoda and Scania. The company has revealed that it has invested PLN 50 million (EUR11.26 million 11.96 USD million).
Electropoli-Galwanotechnica (as Galwano-technika) was founded in 1983 in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. In 2005, the company was acquired by Electropoli group.
Sources
24 November 2016: Strefa Biznesu
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Electropoli Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 89431, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89431.
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