Testing over, LG Philips LCD now starts production

"We received permission on Friday afternoon. Before that we were running test production, it was not commercial operations. Audits were carried out as well as inspections of production lines," said the company's spokesperson Magdalena Jelonek. Currently, the investor has an annual production capacity of 3 million LCD modules. The target production, to be reached in 2011, amounts to 11 million. The plant has currently 1,000 workers, a figure which is to grow to 2,500 in 2011. Besides the joint venture between LG and Philips, other giants such as Toshiba, Funai and Sharp are also launching their own production facilities. Currently 28% of flat and 72% of CRT television sets sold on the European market are produced in Poland. (Puls Biznesu, p. 7) A.K.