Hisense Gorenje: Production of TVs in Slovenia to start in January

Hisense Gorenje, a manufacturer of household devices, has officially confirmed that it will start producing TVs at one of its former facilities in Velenje in January 2021.

The Chinese-owned company has announced that Hisense Europe Electronic TV will have around 400 employees in the first phase, of which 330 will be production workers, STA reports.

Hisense Gorenje says in a press release that jobs will first be offered to the workers from the existing production facilities in Gorenje, which means that they will be offered to be repositioned. The jobs vacated by them will be filled through new employments.

A part of the staff will be sought in other Hisense Europe companies as well, and external candidates will be given an opportunity too. The training of workers at the TV factory, whose products will be meant for export to the European market, will begin on December 15.

The works on the preparation of the factory at the former production facility of Gorenje HZPA are in progress, and investments in the equipment are estimated at EUR 7 million.

The planned production rate at four production lines in the first phase is two million devices a year. The projection is that the capacities and the production will increase in line with market demands to nearly four million a year by 2023.

The opening of a TV factory in Velenje was first announced in 2018 when Hisense took over Gorenje. Initially, a whole new factory worth several dozen million euros was announced, and at the moment, there are archaeological excavations on the location of 3.5 hectares, STA adds.

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