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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 July 2019
Employment effect (start)
15 June 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
Japanese car components manufacturing company Kasai Slovakia opened its new factory in the industrial zone of Levice-Gena in June 2019. The site spreads over an area of 26,250 square metres. According to reports, around 100 people are expected to work in the establishment over three shifts. The company produces plastic components for car interiors for Jaguar Land Rover's factory. Presently, 16 investors from Slovakia and other countries operate in the Levice-Gena industrial complex.
Eurofound (2019), Kasai Slovakia, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 98275, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98275.
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