Transsystem signs deal with Chrysler

Transsystem, the country's largest producer of systems for technical transport, mainly conveyors used in car manufacturing plants, has signed a $4 million contract with a Chrysler plant located in Alabama, USA. Transsystem, located in Wola Dalsza near Lancut in the Podkarpackie voivodship, has opened a division in Tuscaloosa and sent a number of its employees there. The contract concerns the assembly of steel constructions and equipment used for painting cars, which were mainly produced in Dalsza Wola. The company is also finalizing talks, concerning another contract, this time with the Hyundai plant in the same state. Transsystem employs over 1,000 workers at its plant in Poland, and hopes to see revenues this year exceeding zl. 100 million. It has already signed contracts, chiefly with Western European and American companies, worth almost zl. 70 million. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B3) A.K.