UFI Filters is opening a new plant in Opole, Poland, to make heat exchangers with vacuum brazing, doubling its heat exchanger capacity. The 42 million PLN (about 10 million EUR) investment will create at least 65 jobs, with operations starting in Q2 2018.
Avery Dennison Polska signed a lease for over 13,300 square meters in the MLP Pruszków II logistics park near Warsaw for production and warehousing, with delivery scheduled for Q2 2018.
Aero Gearbox International, a joint venture of Rolls-Royce and Safran, opened a 13,500 m2 accessory drive train plant in Ropczyce, Poland. It already employs over 50 people and is expected to grow to up to 200.
SPX FLOW opened a new 28,000-square-meter manufacturing campus in Bydgoszcz, Poland, producing hygienic valves, sanitary plate heat exchangers and homogenizers. The company described it as a multimillion-dollar investment, and the announcement was dated January 31, 2017.
Advansor, a CO2 refrigeration systems specialist, is setting up a new production plant in Szczecin, north-west Poland, scheduled to start operations in May 2017 and ramp up over two to three years.
Schumacher Packaging took over the Fabryka Papieru Myszków paper mill in Poland and will convert the former newsprint plant into a cardboard factory with 250,000-300,000 tonnes annual capacity, with production starting in 2019 and EUR 100 million invested to expand capacity.
Elmo Motion Control began manufacturing servo drives and motion controllers at its own new production facility in Poland in Q2 2015, to serve EU customers.