Kirchhoff Automotive, a German automotive group, which has three plants in Poland, considers building a new one.
“The company wants to build a plant employing 400-700 people near Kamienna Gora. It signed contract to deliver parts for Skoda and wants to be close to the south-western border”, “PB” source said.
“No comment”, Szymon Madera, the CEO of Kamienna Gora special economic zone said.
He admitted, however, that he negotiates with a German automotive company which is already present in Poland. Kirchhoff has two plants in Gliwice and one in Mielec and produces car parts for Opel.
If “PB” news comes true, the Kamienna Gora zone will get a big and well-known investor. The CEO says that more German automotive producers are interested in investing there.
“We are on a short list of two European locations for a car company which would like to employ over 500 people. We will also try to make special economic zone on a lot Chojen by yet another German automotive investor planning to employ 450 people”, Szymon Madera said.
He stressed that investors are more and more interested in smaller towns, which may be caused by problems with workforce in big cities. If the negotiations are successful, the special economic zone may substantially improve its results. Last year, only four new companies decided to start operations here (while in Katowice special economic zone there were 36 new projects), the four companies promised to invest PLN 10.2m, or EUR 2.9m (against PLN 1.8bn in Katowice) and create 200 jobs (in Lodz special economic zone the number was 4,800).
(PLN 1 = EUR 0.284)