Lear's new Volvo door deal means jobs boost in Mazowsze region

"Production of door elements for Volvo corporation will be launched at the end of the year," informed Marek Olechowski, head of Teresin commune. Initially the firm will produce door panels for the latest edition of S80 model of Volvo. Lear will manufacture in a facility leased from logistics company Prologis. According to Olechowski, the firm is currently concluding preparations of its office and hiring managers. In the summer Lear will import equipment from Germany worth some $6 million. Lear will employ 80 people, but "the employment in Teresin plant will be doubled by the end of 2006," informed a highly ranked manager of Lear Corporation. He went on to say that currently the firm employs 4,500 people in Poland out of which 1,000 were employed in 2004 alone. (Puls Biznesu, p. 6) M.M.