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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
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 May 2019
Employment effect (start)
21 May 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
NGK Ceramics Polska, the subsidiary of the Japanese producer of ceramic filters for diesel engines NGK Insulators, has announced that it will create 400 job vacancies at its new production facility in Gliwice. The factory will produce modern exhaust control valves for diesel engines. The company is one of the most prominent manufacturers of automotive ceramic filters.
NGK Ceramics has been operating in Poland since 2003. The company has three factories in Gliwice and two in Dąbrowa Górnicza, all located in the Katowice Special Economic Zone, Poland. Currently, the company employs 4,000 people in Poland.
Eurofound (2019), NGK Ceramics Polska, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 97889, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97889.
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