Bridgestone to open EUR 200 million factory

The concern will allocate approximately EUR 200 million for the project, and the factory will belong to Bridgestone Europe. Production is to start in the first half of 2009 with an output of 5,000 tyres a day. "We will be able to ensure supplies in Europe from the factories located here," declared the president of Bridgestone Europe, Takashi Urano. The factory in Stargard Szczecinski will be the concern's second plant producing tyres for trucks and buses in Europe after the plant in Bilbao, Spain. According to Puls Biznesu sources, the factory will employ almost 800 people. "This investment is proof that Polish-Japanese relations are becoming stronger. "We want to use this trend. We are organizing several missions to Japan," declared the president of the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency Adam Zolnowski. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 8) E.B.