Optical fiber plant receives Offset Committee approval

Scientists from Lublin-based Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) have p resented the Offset Committee with a project for constructing a plant for ma nufacturing optical fibers. The idea was positively evaluated and passed for realization. However Economy Minister Jerzy Hausner announced that the produ ction facility will not be constructed in Lublin, but in Ożarów. Professor J an Reiss, the head of optical fiber studies at UMCS, which is probably the o nly university in the world where students are taught this technology, argue s that the plant should be constructed in Lublin where it would provide a la rge number of jobs for the whole voivodship. Supporters of Hausner's idea cl aim that the Lublin area will already receive a lot of offset projects, than ks to the construction of an aircraft plant in Świdnik. Government officials from Lublin have already announced they will not allow a different location for the plant and will try to convince the final decision makers of their cl aims. (www.rmf.pl) A.K.