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Koxka/Kobol plants to reopen next month

SPAIN: The K Refrigeration Group plans to restart production at both the Koxka refrigeration factory and the Kobol heat exchanger plant next month.

Production will commence as early as next week at the Kobol plant in Peralta and around October 19 at the Koxka factory in Pamplona, according to Spanish press reports.

The troubled factories, once part of the US Hussmann group, have been idle since entering administration last year.

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