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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
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 June 2019
Employment effect (start)
6 June 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
German car components producer ZF Friedrichshafen opened its next plant in the Punch Campus Industrial Park of Detva. In the first stage, the new plant is expected to create about 200 new jobs, to cover a total floor space of 11,000 mq, and to produce different components of the car chassis.  According to ZF manager, the plant in Detva is in line with the company's business strategy. In Slovakia, ZF operates since 1993 and has plants also in Trnava, Levice, Sahy and Komarno with a total number of 3,800 employees.      Â
Eurofound (2019), ZF, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 98076, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98076.
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