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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.31 - Manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment for motor vehicles
3,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 May 2017
Employment effect (start)
31 December 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
LG Chem has announced that it will create 3,000 jobs at its new factory in Biskupice Podgórne (Tarnobrzeg Special Economic Zone, Poland). The plant, which will produce over 100,000 batteries for electric cars each year, it is expected to be operational by the second half of 2017. The company plans to invest about PLN 1.2 billion (EUR 286.39 million USD 322.58 million) in the project; it will be Europe’s first mass production facility for lithium-ion car batteries.
Recently, the company has also signed a cooperation agreement with Wrocław University of Science and Technology.
LG Chem is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries. The company is a part of LG group.
Sources
30 May 2017: Gazeta Wyborcza Wrocław
31 May 2017: Tu Wrocław
Citation
Eurofound (2017), LG Chem, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 91101, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91101.
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