Wrocław builds knowledge economy with Diehl Controls

The company is planning to rent an office in Wrocław where it will invest over zł.4 million in equipment and hire 50 engineers. Rafał Dudkiewicz, the president of Wrocław, is suitably happy about this investment win saying that his city competed with other big locations. The city was counting on this investment as it represents a step in the construction of a knowledge economy, an area it wants to develop. For the time being Diehl has hired four people with 10 engineers to come later this year. Diehl established a factory in Namysłów in 1999, 60 kilometers from Wrocław, where it manufactures equipment for the domestic appliance industry. Diehl Controls hires over 2,000 workers and has annual turnover of EUR 275 million. (Puls Biznesu, p.9) M.M.