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.
Firma Oponiarska Dębica, a Polish tyre manufacturer, will hire 200 people at its factory in Dębica. The recruitment has started in connection with the development of the plant. The company is looking for employees (with experience as well as beginners) for the following positions: tyre and CNC machine operator, mould fitter, repair mechanic, electrician, electrician, electromechanic.
The Firma Oponiarska Dębica had been operating for 85 years. It manufactures tyres for cars, vans and trucks only of its own brand, but also of Goodyear, Dunlop, Fulda and Sava. The Dębica factory is the largest Goodyear plant in Europe and one of the three largest in the world. The factory employs around 3,000 people.
Eurofound (2024), Firma Oponiarska Dębica, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 201086, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/201086.
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