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PARK LUZIANKY WELCOMES NEW SPANISH INVESTOR
A Spanish investor is heading to Slovakia planning to invest 100 million euros. The company Gestamp wants to erect a new factory in Luzianky that will make extruded steel and aluminum parts for passenger cars. The investment would open 229 new jobs.
GERMAN COMPANY BRINGING 500 JOBS TO PRESOV
German company Etilog GmbH plans to build its factory in Presov. As many as 500 people should work there in the final phase. The firm has already started training the first staffers.
NEW WOOD PROCESSING PLANT IN SOUTHERN SLOVAKIA
A new wood processing plant is likely to be built in the southern Slovak town of Dunajska Streda. The company Woodprof is behind the project. Over 40 jobs should be created.
SEDITA IS EXPANDING ITS PRODUCTION CAPACITY
The Slovak producer of sweets and durable pastry Sedita prepares a significant expansion in its production. The investment sum will reach roughly 75 million euros. The investment should give work to tens of people.
FAURECIA WILL CREATE 1, 300 JOBS IN LOZORNO
As many as 1,300 jobs will be created in the industrial park in Lozorno. The jobs will be created by French company Faurecia which will produce car seats. The operation is planned to be launched as of January of next year.
LEYNARD EUROPE EXPANDS IN PRESOV
The company Leyard Europe is going to expand its production capacity in Presov industrial park Zaborske. It therefore intends to buy more land in the park from the city. The largest producer of giant displays in the world insures its position of the market leader. The company has its seat in the rented premises opposite to the sports hall in Presov. Last year it acquired land in the industrial park from the Presov’s town hall for 290,000 euros. The land is in the neighborhood of the American supplier for automotive Honeywell. It will complete own premises on this land until the end of this year.
PRODUCTION OF KIA MOTORS SLOVAKIA GREW 4.7% IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2016
The carmaker Kia Motors Slovakia produced 177,900 cars in the first half of 2016, which means a 4.7% y/y growth in comparison with the first half of 2015. The carmaker increased its production of engines by more than 11 percent when it made more than 318,000 of them in the first six months of the year.
SYRAREN BEL SLOVENSKO EXPANDS TECHNOLOGY WITH THE STATE AID SUPPORT
The Michalovce based company Syraren Bel Slovensko approved the support of 450,000 euros for expansion of technology and 950,000 euros as an allowance on taxes still in March. The new facility has been working full speed nowadays. The investment has to be perceived for five years, the same as 50 jobs, which they created. They increased the production of natural cheese from more than 5,000 tons to over 8,000 tons. They want to support mainly the local producers.
LOGISTICS PARK GROWS IN NITRA
On the heels of the announcement of the automaker Jaguar Land Rover investment in Slovakia, a logistics park will be built near Nitra where 3,810 people will work when all production halls are fully occupied. The size of the investment is approximately 30 million euros. The logistics park will consist of three halls. They will serve for receiving, storage, and redistribution of components for production in the Jaguar Land Rover factory and for light production in the industrial zone.
SLOVAKTUAL PLANS LARGE INVESTMENT NEAR PRIEVIDZA
One of the biggest Slovak manufacturers of plastic and aluminum windows is preparing a large investment in the industrial area near Prievidza. Company Slovaktual will build a new production hall. In the new plant the company will produce insulating glass for its windows. This investment will give work to 60 people in the region. It will be already the seventh production hall of Slovaktual in the district of Prievidza. The company wants to process there 1.7 million square meters of glass.
NEW HALLS WILL BE BUILT NEXT TO VOLKSWAGEN SLOVAKIA PLANT
Volkswagen Slovakia manufacturing plant located in Bratislava district of Devinska Nova Ves will have new neighbors. Three new halls for storage, sub-assembling and light assembling of car components will be built in its neighborhood. The project was proposed by the joint-stock refuse systems company Slovensky Odpadovy Priemysel.
ENERGYCO WILL COME TO EASTERN SLOVAKIA
The building permits for entry of a new investor, the engineering company Energyco, in the village of Velka Ida in the district Kosice surroundings are being processed in these days. The company Energyco should start its business by the end of the year and create roughly 150 – 200 jobs.
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