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Manufacturing Repair And Installation Of Machinery And Equipment Repair And Installation Of Machinery And Equipment 33.12 - Repair of machinery
130 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
13 December 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 November 2018
Foreseen end date
1 December 2019
Description
Energoremont Bobovdol announced its closure, with all of its 130 workers and specialists registering at the employment offices, said the CEO of the company. 74 of the former workers are from the town of Dupnitsa and the other 56 from the towns of Bobov Dol, Kyustendil and Sapareva Banya. Dozens of workers have already registered at the local employment offices, and some of them have found jobs in other companies. Turners, millers and fitters are already employed by the Thermal Power Plant Bobov dol.
Energoremont – Bobov dol JSC was a company specialised in repairs of steam and water turbines, water heating boilers, transformers and generators, electrical motors and production of metal structures, repairs and producing of spare parts for power and mining equipment. It was established in 1974 and has more than 40 years of experience in overhauls and emergency repairs of facilities and plants in the energy sector in Bulgaria.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Energoremont – Bobov dol JSC, Closure in Bulgaria, factsheet number 96305, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96305.
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