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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25.11 - Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
31 October 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Manufacturing business Lesko Modular Group has announced plans to create 120 new jobs. The company, which manufactures modular houses and apartments, has signed a ten year lease on the Gateway Park, at Orton Southgate, just outside Peterborough. The site will house a production facility and a headquarters in the same location. Recruitment for the new positions is already underway, with the company seeking multiskilled operatives. It is expected that the jobs will be filled over the coming twelve to eighteen months.
Sources
31 October 2017: Peterborough Today
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Lesko Modular Group, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 92442, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92442.
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