Volvo's Wroclaw bus factory to become largest production facility in Europe
The Swedish company Volvo invested about $50 million in the development of
the Wroclaw-based bus factory. By the middle of the month a new industrial
complex Centrum Przemyslowe Volvo will be opened in Wroclaw. Next year the
factory plans to produce 1,110 buses and 1,400 chassises. According to Volvo
Poland Buses marketing director Joanna Kurek the new part of the company is
to continue developing the existing products. Apart from Poland, the buses
will be sold to Scandinavian countries, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and
Italy. The current number of the company's employees of 1,200 is to increase
to 2,000 which will make it the biggest Volvo factory in Europe and the only
one to produce complete vehicles of this type. (Puls Biznesu, page 7) E.B.
