Bielsko-Biala engine plant to get euro 300 million investment

F.A. Powertrain Polska has announced plans for a massive increase in production at its Bielsko-Biala engine plant. Under a strategy of giving the plant a key role in the company's long-term development, 500,000 diesel engines will be produced at Bielsko-Biala annually by 2003. The cost of the investment is estimated at euro 300 million. Last year the plant produced just 70,000 engines, mainly for the Fiat models Seicento, Uno and Panda. Its chief customers include the car parts plant at Tychy, as well as the Mirafiori car plant in Italy. F.A. Powertrain, which is jointly owned by Fiat and General Motors, employs 25,500 workers in 11 countries on the European, North American, Asian and African continents. It owns 19 production plants and seven engineering centers worldwide. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 4) A.K.