Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturer of drug delivery devices Nemera Szczecin has announced that it will create about 230 new jobs at its factory in Szczecin within the coming years. New production halls are being built. Currently, the company employs 120 staff at the Szczecin site and the prediction is that in 2025 about 350 people will work in the new plant. The company is to hire mainly specialists with higher education in mechanics, mechatronics, automation as well as plastic technologies. Nemera is looking for production engineers, injection moulding engineers, assembly and maintanance technicians, project managers, lab engineers, quality controllers, quality engineers and metrologists.
Nemera specializes in the design, development and manufacturing of drug delivery devices for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and generics industries. Nemera operates in North America and Europe, employing about 2,100 people. In 2020, Nemera acquired Copernicus, Poland-based provider of injection devices, located in Szczecin.
Eurofound (2021), Nemera Szczecin, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 105450, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/105450.
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