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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
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 January 2018
Employment effect (start)
17 January 2018
Foreseen end date
1 September 2018
Description
The German automotive and industrial supplier, Wielpütz Automotive, announced it will hire 500 workers at a new plant in Craiova plant (Dolj County) by 1 September 2018. The company is planning to invest €10 million into the new subassemblies plant, the construction of which will start in February this year.
The headquarters of the production and development site are in Hilden.
Craiova plant is the first plant of the company outside Germany.
Sources
17 January 2018: monitoruldeoltenia.com
17 January 2018: angajatorulmeu.ro
17 January 2018: romanianjournal.ro
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Wielpütz Automotive, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 93020, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93020.
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