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.
The new engineering and service centre of Diehl Aviation Hungary, a subsidiary of the Germany-based Diehl group, started operating in Debrecen. The new centre brings a total of 151 new jobs, 121 of which are highly qualified white-collar jobs. The centre started its operation with 60 employees, the recruitment process continues.
This is the first engineering and service centre of the Diehl group outside Germany. Its activity will focus on activies like support of purchase, client support, programme management and financial activities, in cooperation with the University of Debrecen. There is another Diehl Aviation site in Hungary, an aviation component manufacturing plant in the city of Nyírbátor.
The new centre is a result of an investment of €9 million, about one-third of which was provided by the Hungarian state.
Eurofound (2019), Diehl Aviation Hungary, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 96620, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/96620.
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