French Pasta investment may help Sulechów enter a SEZ

The firm will operate on the Polish market under the name of Alpina Slavia and will employ more than 100 people. "Construction work will begin later this year, while production in the new facility will be commenced in June 2006," said Ignacy Odważny, mayor of Sulechów. This will be second pasta plant in the town, but it will have four times higher production capacity and most of the output will be exported to the European Union. "Most likely it will produce private label pasta for large retail networks," commented a representative of a competing company. Thanks to investment boom, Sulechów might be included in the Kostrzyń-Słubice Special Economic Zone. (Puls Biznesu, p. 8) M.M.