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.
Denmarks' medical device manufacturer Coloplast has inaugurated its new manufacturing plant in Nyírbátor, Northeast Hungary. Coloplast develops, manufactures and markets medical disposables helping people overcome a physical impairment. The 20,000 sq-metre new unit in Nyírbátor is the Coloplast's second factory in Hungary. Coloplast’s two Hungarian factories will produce €100 million products annually, representing the most significant production capacity of the mother company. The investment will create at least 600 jobs in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county by spring 2009, production will take place on . Recruitment and training started at the beginning of 2007 in rented buildings in Nyírbátor and at the 6 year old Tatabánya plant.
Eurofound (2007), Coloplast, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 65837, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/65837.
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