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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
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 January 2019
Employment effect (start)
31 July 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
German electronic car components company NORD has announced plans to create 400 positions, mainly for women, at its new production facility in Szprotawa. The unit, which will be located in the Wałbrzych Special Economic Zone, Poland, is expected to be fully operational in summer 2019, and it will specialise in the production of electric engines. The company is to invest about PLN 80 million (€18.4 million) in the project. In Poland, NORD has two factories located in Wieliczka and Nowa Sól.
Eurofound (2019), NORD, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 96664, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96664.
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