CP factory in Świdnica

Engineers from PM Group are helping Colgate-Palmolive (CP) to construct a new toothpaste factory that is being built on a 22 ha plot within the Wałbrzych Invest Park Special Economic Zone. CP is expected to invest zł.160 million and employ a minimum of 400 people.

The project is being supervised by PM Group, which means it controls the timetable and financing procedures, and manages the main contractor, which is Skanska. PM's engineers will also assist during the starting of the factory's production line.

"Working for Colgate, we are using experience that was gained during our construction projects for the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland," said Grzegorz Bartłomiej Tymczak, PM Group Poland's project manager for the plant. "The factory has to meet very high standards in terms of wiring, work safety and production hygiene."

Tymczak said that within the Świdnica Colgate-Palmolive plot, five buildings will be constructed, including the main factory, warehouses and administration buildings, as well as a water-treatment plant and an anti-fire pump station. The works began in June, currently the main production hall is being covered with a roof and completion works are expected to start soon. The new factory will be completed in March 2007 and is expected to start operating in September 2007.

PM Group is the biggest engineering company in Ireland and employs 1,600 people. In Poland, the company has been present since 1997 and it currently has 12 projects in Poland, whose combined budgets amount to EUR 400 (zł.1,550) million.