TC Debica to construct $10 million distribution center

Tire maker Firmy Oponiarskie TC Debica is to build a logistics center for Goodyear tires outside Debica in the third quarter next year. The $10 million investment was initially planned in 1998 to be located within Debica, but protests from environmental groups and disapproval from the Environment Ministry delayed the venture. Opposition centered around the plant being built next to a forest. TC Debica had even agreed to extend $1.2 million to the local authorities if the deal was allowed to go ahead. Neighboring municipalities of Mielec and Tarnow have been keen to grant TC Debica land for the factory if it failed to set up the plant at the Debica site. (Rzeczpospolita, page B2)