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Relocations and expansions across Europe
Tsubakimoto to build Solvay starts up a new factory in Czech Republic hydrogen peroxide plant in China
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rive chain maker Tsubakimoto is to set up its second plant in Europe. Located in the Czech Republic, Tsubaki Automotive Czech Republic s.r.o. will manufacture and assemble timing chain drive systems and associated products for leading car manufacturers across Europe. Building works are already in hand at a site in the Central Bohemian town of Kolin about 55km (35 miles) east of the capital city Prague. Tsubakimoto has planned for the construction project to proceed in stages, the first being a 5000m2 building to be completed by November 2017 and to house 40 personnel. The whole site should be fully operational by 2020, when it will have a total built area of over 40,000m2 and employ 80 people in manufacturing, commercial and engineering roles. Visit: www.tsubaki.eu
Peikko to invest in a new factory in Kaunas, Lithuania
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eikko Group has made an investment decision to build a new DELTABEAM® factory in Kaunas, Lithuania. The new factory will be built next to Peikko’s existing Kaunas factory. The investment exceeds €9 million and it comprises the new factory building as well as new production lines and machinery. The size of the factory will be 6000m2 with new planned production capacity of 250 beams per week. “The new factory in Lithuania will bring us the needed capacity increase long-term. Peikko already has a well-functioning production unit in Kaunas, so building the new factory there was an easy decision. Lithuania is logistically ideally located to effectively serve our current DELTABEAM® main markets; the areas around the Baltic Sea,” states Topi Paananen, CEO of Peikko Group Corporation. Visit: www.peikko.com
Gestamp to build new state-of-theart stamping plant in the UK
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estamp, the international group dedicated to the design, development and manufacture of metal automotive components, plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Four Ashes near Wolverhampton (West Midlands). The new plant will upgrade the company’s industrial capabilities in the
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olvay has started hydrogen peroxide production at its new plant in Zhenjiang, China. This plant has a capacity of 60,000 tonnes per year and will meet the growing local customer demand for high quality products in addition to supplying demand from Solvay’s own businesses in the semiconductor and flavour industries. Solvay’s Peroxides Global Business Unit (GBU) built the plant in Solvay’s chemical manufacturing platform located within Zhenjiang Green Chemical & New Material Industry Park. The platform already hosts two other Solvay GBUs, allowing all businesses at the site to benefit from shared infrastructure, logistics and services. The plant is the first in China to use Solvay Peroxide’s innovative, world leading technology with improved efficiency, while further promoting sustainability in operations by significantly reducing effluents and energy usage. Visit: www.solvay.com
AWS Electronics announces £1M investment in Slovakia manufacturing centre
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WS Electronics Group, one of Europe’s leading specialist electronics manufacturing services providers, has announced a further significant expansion at its low cost manufacturing centre in N·mestovo, Slovakia. The £1M investment – AWS’ third phase of development at the site – almost doubles the available production space enabling a second automotive line to be located at the facility. Revenue growth at the Slovakia plant is now growing at around 25% year on year, and while the automotive sector is one of the main contributors to growth and a major driver for the expansion, other sectors such as lighting, scientific instrumentation, medical and general industrial are also showing healthy growth. Comments AWS Electronics’ CEO Paul Deehan: “Our strategy of continually investing and expanding our Slovakian facility in a region which is physically close to significant existing and potential new customers is working very well.” Visit: www.awselectronicsgroup.com
region and will entail an investment of over £70 million. The new West Midlands plant expects to host state-of-the-art stamping equipment in its 50,000 square metres and is designed to safeguard the 800 jobs at Gestamp’s current Cannock plant by progressively moving production to the new facility.
“We have been working on this project for a long time. The UK is one of Gestamp’s top five global markets since the beginning of our operations here in 2011,” said Ian Middleton, Gestamp Country Manager in the UK. “Our company is committed to helping our customers in key aspects such as quality, safety and lightweight innovations.” Visit: www.gestamp.com
