Volkswagen's new factory will open October 24th

On October 24 in Białężyce near Września (Wielkopolskie voivodship) Volkswagen will open its new factory, with a predicted production volume of nearly 100,000 cars a year. The investment is valued at PLN 3.3 billion; 2,800 workplaces are to be created. Volkswagen Poznań is the region's biggest employer, with more than 10,000 employees predicted by 2018. In 2015 it produced 170,800 cars of the Transporter and Caddy models, both shipped worldwide. New policies concern protecting the environment, creating workplaces for local communities (30 percent of employees live nearby) and hiring more women, which are a handful in the automotive industry. Volkswagen Poznań was created in 1993. It specializes in car- and automotive components-making.