Brembo releases its brakes on investment plans in the Katowice SSE

Italy-based Brembo, a company specalizing in the production of brake disks, has begun construction of a plant in Dabrowa Gornicza in the Katowice Special Economic Zone (KSSE) at a cost of around zl. 60 million. "The investment will be completed in stages. First the company will hire 150 people, with the target of employing 400 workers," said KSSE deputy president Miroslaw Bubel. The company hopes to start its business activities by processing imported components of brake disks. In 2000 the Italian concern launched the production of brake disks at the Pol-Disc plant in Czestochowa, which changed its name into Brembo two months ago. The production of the two plants is to complement each other. The president of Brembo in Czestochowa, Grzegorz Pasternak, is responsible for the project in KSSE. Brembo brake disks are bought by the world's largest car concerns, including FIAT. (Puls Biznesu, p. 11) A.Z.