# GF Machining Solutions builds innovation and production center in Biel, Switzerland

GF Machining Solutions held the groundbreaking ceremony for a new innovation and production center in Bözingenfeld, Biel. The plant will produce machine tools and spindles, house R&D and application centers, and create around 450 jobs. GF is investing CHF 80 million, with completion expected by end of 2018.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2017-03-08
- Where: Bözingenfeld, Biel, Switzerland
- Value: $80.0M (80.0M CHF)
- Jobs: 450
- Starts operating: 2018
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 24,500 sqm
- Products: machine tools, spindles
- Sectors: [Industrial Machinery](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-machinery.md)

## Companies

- [GF Machining Solutions](https://endata.com/companies/16878.md)

## Sources

- [immobilienbusiness.ch](https://www.immobilienbusiness.ch/en/regionen/2017-03-09/biel-gf-baut-innovationszentrum/), 2017-03-09: "The state-of-the-art plant will allow us to concentrate all milling machine production in Switzerland in one place."

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