Sumitomo completes $5 million production plant for Toyota parts

Japanese Sumitomo has completed construction of a $5 million plant in Rawicz for production of electric conductors. The Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems (SEWS) plant supplies Toyota Yaris production in France. Toyota will purchase 150,000 conductors yearly, approximately 10% of the Polish plant's output. According to Dariusz Zawirski, SEWS Polska sales director, by the end of the year about 150 people will be employed in the Rawicz plant. In 1999 SEWS Polska sp. z o.o. revenues amounted to zl.104 million, zl.38 million higher than in 1998. (Rzeczpospolita, p.B3)