SEZs prove popular as investor inflow leads to jobs boom in the zones

Thanks to legal changes in the functioning of three SEZs, investments worth a total of over zł.760 million should be carried out. They will provide jobs to more than 3,300 persons. "Thanks to creating a sub-zone in Zielona Góra, a Polish investor from the timber industry will construct a new plant worth zł.160 million, which will employ 600 persons," said Artur Rosiak, a representative of the Kostrzyń-Słubice SEZ. The new facility will be opened in 2006. Other new sub-zones of KSSEZ include Chodzież, which is related to the envisaged construction of a production facility by German Europol-Meble. "By 2007 the investor will employ 500 persons, while in the long-run the total number of workers will increase to 1,000. In the first phase the firm will invest zł.30 million, while in the following phase it will invest zł.70 million," said Rosiak. Other investments located in the new sub-zones of Wałbrzych SEZ will allow for projects worth zł.500 million, which will give jobs to over 1,300 people. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 7) M.M.