Mota & Companhia to open steel factory in Gliwice

Portugal's biggest construction group, Mota & Companhia, which has participated in Polish road and bridge-building projects, is preparing to expand its operational objectives here. Next year will see the construction of a factory, to be opened in the Katowice Special Economic Zone in Gliwice, and owned by Martifer - part of the Mota group. The investment is to top zł. 40 million. "The factory will be officially opened next year and will supply steel structures to aid the development of a motorway presently under construction," said Antonio Castro, Mota & Companhia's representative for Eastern Europe. The Portugese company, together with Budimex-Dromex, is building a section of the A4 motorway from Nogawczyce to Kleszczów, as well as the Krzywa-Wądroże stretch in partnership with Austria's Strabag. (Puls Biznesu, p. 9) A.C.