The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Wood And Paper Materials Manufacture Of Paper And Paper Products 17.1 - Manufacture of pulp, paper and paperboard
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 November 2018
Employment effect (start)
9 November 2018
Foreseen end date
9 August 2019
Description
Vajda PapÃr, a Hungary-based manufacturer of paper products, completed the construction of its new plant in Dunaföldvár, Southern Transdanubia. The plant will provide 100 new jobs.
With the new plant, the firm’s production capacity will increase by about 50%, while the management expects actual output grow in 2019 by 20%. The investment cost was HUF 15 billion (€47 million as of 15 November 2018). The government supported the investment with HUF 4.5 billion (€14 million), under its large enterprise investment support programme. This programme targets large firms not eligible for EU-funded support schemes.
Vajda PapÃr was founded in 1999. The firm produces hygiene and household paper products. The company has a Norway-based subsidiary, founded In 2013, under the name of Vajda-PapÃr Scandinavia AS.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Vajda PapÃr, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 95833, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95833.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
