The engineering and development service provider Altran is doubling its
workforce in Wolfsburg. This is reported by the local daily newspaper.
By Rebecca Eisert
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| Connected car from Altran. (Photo: Altran) |
Up to 500 new jobs are to be created at Altran in Wolfsburg - more
precisely in the industrial area Warmenau-Ost. The Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung reports this. Altran is investing "despite the austerity at Volkswagen" as the paper
writes. The existing branches would be brought together in a new building.The workforce thus doubled to around 1000 employees.
The French development service provider employs 30,000 people worldwide,
of whom around 3,000 are based in Germany. In 2016, the company grew organically by about 6 percent and achieved sales
of 2.1 billion euros. The number of orders with a volume of more than
one million euros had grown by 25 percent, the company said in the
presentation of its financial figures on 9 March. It was only last October that Altran took over two companies with the Czech company Swell and Benteler Engineering.
The Czechs specialize in engineering, development and testing services in
the automotive sector. With the acquired know-how, Altran wants to
position itself more strongly as a whole vehicle developer. Customers
include Škoda Auto and the suppliers Robert Bosch, Continental, Magna and
Honeywell. The company operates engineering, prototyping workshops and
testing facilities in the Czech Republic and currently employs about 160
people.
"In the context of our Altran 2020.Ignition strategy planning, Germany is a
market with high priority," stated Dominique Cerutti, Altran's Chairman and
CEO in October.
Article:http://www.automobilwoche.de/article/20170401/NACHRICHTEN/170409996/1280/altran-schafft-bis-zu--neue-jobs-entwicklungsdienstleister-investiert-am-standort-wolfsburg
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