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Valmet to hire 250 more workers

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Finland's Valmet Automotive to hire 250 more workers

25.8.2005 at 15:08

Valmet Automotive, a subsidiary of Finnish engineering group Metso, told the Finnish News Agency (STT) on Thursday that it would summon back a hundred laid-off workers and hire another 150 people to cope with expanded Porsche production. The Uusikaupunki factory, has been making the updated Boxter model for a year and more recently began churning out the new Cayman S, essentially a hardtop version of the Boxster. Daily production is to increase to 150 units by the end of the year. Currently the factory churns out fewer than a hundred cars per day. "We need more workers in the ranks as soon as early autumn. We will seek to fill all the vacancies by the end of November," said Juhani Suvinen, the chief executive of the factory. HAPPY DAYS "The future looks positive. We have production lines that were renewed a year ago and we make two models whose lifespans are long," Mr Suvinen added. The layoff period, which began two and a half years ago when Saab production stopped in Uusikaupunki, has ended. The number of laid-off workers peaked at 750, set against the factories current workforce of 850.
 
The more they knock out of the factory the less they will be worth in a few years, its happening now, look at the prices of the 986 / 996, they are nose diving >>>..............
Best to buy fords [;)]
 
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Valmet Automotive plant in Uusikaupunki to hire 150 new employees

[/b] A further 100 previously dismissed workers will get jobs back as Porsche production is stepped up

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The Valmet Automotive plant in Uusikaupunki on Finland's West Coast will re-employ just over a hundred previously dismissed workers. In addition, 150 new people will be given jobs as car factory workers.

The first workers will start their training at the beginning of September, and the rest in October. After a training period of four to seven weeks, everyone should be at work by the end of November.

The plant's total number of personnel will rise from 850 to 1,100.

New workers are needed to boost the factory's production of its two Porsche models.

The Porsche Boxster has been in production in Uusikaupunki since 1997, and its latest version was introduced last autumn. In addition, manufacturing of the new Cayman S hardtop model has just commenced.

The new model will be introduced to the public at the Frankfurt Car Show in mid-September.

With the intensified production, the plant's output is expected to double compared to the year 2004, when 10,000 cars were produced. The daily output will rise from under a hundred to around 150 cars.

The Mayor of Uusikaupunki, Kari Koski, regards the news from the factory as "extremely positive".

With the new hirings, the city's unemployment percentage will fall from the present 13.7% to something closer to the national average.

Valmet Automotive is owned by Metso Corporation, whose attempt to sell the plant to the German buyer ThyssenKrupp Automotive fell flat a year ago. Metso Corporation's core business is the production of paper machines and stone crushers.

The Uusikaupunki plant was opened in 1968 as a joint venture between the then Valmet and Saab-Scania. For many years it produced Saabs, including the company's cabriolet models. Chrysler-Talbot and Opel cars have also been built in Uusikaupunki.

Production of the Porsche Boxster began in 1997, and was seen as a lifeline after Opel pulled out in 1997 and Saab ceased production some years later.

I don't know if these two work there - but it's the picture they use to illustrate the article!

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