Japanese investment in Katowice- Yamazaki Mazak Technology Centre
Yamazaki Mazak, the world's largest producer of machine tools for metal cutting, constructs a technology centre in Katowice.
In 2004 at the beginning of its operations in Poland Yamazaki Mazak chose Katowice due to the location of major Polish industry units, good communication context of the city and the access to highly skilled engineering staff. Today the Poland-based section of the company employs 21 people in the departments of trade, technology and service.
The new Technology Centre, which Yamazaki Mazak Corporation also decided to locate in Katowice, will become not only the distribution and service centre for machine tools, but above all a place where the company’s latest technologies in metalworking will be implemented as well as a place where Polish specialists will get professional training. The Centre's activities will focus on technical and technological support for users of machine tools produced by Yamazaki Mazak and on the organization of training courses for their buyers and users. - We really wanted to attract thet Yamazaki Mazak here because it is a company active in high-tech industry. We also hope that this project will encourage other Japanese companies to invest in Katowice - says Piotr Uszok, President of Katowice.
Yamazaki Mazak Technology Centre |
The new building will consist of two-storey office section area of about 400m2 and a space prepared for the organization of exhibitions (of about 500m2). Japanese firm Takenaka Europe is the general constructor of the building. In fact, the company carries out almost all building projects run by Japanese investors in Europe. Yet the company’s subcontractors are local construction companies from Silesia. The Construction Technology Centre was launched on March 1st, 2011 but the new building will be ready in December 2011. The project was actively supported by the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency (PAIiIZ).
Yamazaki Mazak was founded in 1919 in the Japanese city of Nagoya. The Japanese manufacturer of weaving machines was developing relatively quickly and started producing machines for the processing of wood and metal. In the 1960s Yamazaki Mazak entered the international arena, starting to export its products to the U.S. Yamazaki Mazak Corporation, currently in its nine manufacturing facilities (located in Japan, Singapore, China, USA and UK), employs approximately 7,000 employees, of which about 900 in Europe. Yamazaki Mazak is the official supplier to Formula 1 Team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, supplying machine tools, on which this team’s cars are produced. (UM Katowice).
For more information please contact: Jacob Jarząbek, UM Katowice, tel +48 32 259 38 51 / +48 609 308 975, e-mail:
jakub.jarzabek@katowice.eu, PhD. Tadeusz Szczepanik, Yamazaki Mazak Director, Central Europe Department in Poland, tel: +48 32 781 61 02, fax: +48 32 781 06 04, e-mail:
TSzczepanik@mazak.com.pl.
New investment in the Wałbrzych Special Economic Zone
The Zone attrcated three new investment projects.
The Polish PROMATIK starts production of machines and domestic appliances. The investor has committed to invest at least PLN 1.1 million and to increase the current employment level with 4 new persons.
The second investor, ENVO, plans to launch production of steel and metal boilers. ENVO plans to invest PLN 13.1 million. The company will create 34 new jobs.
The Loxley company, with capital from Liechtenstein and Poland, plans to expand the production of doors, door frames, thresholds and other metal products. This is the second business activity permission the company got in the SEZ. Loxley will invest PLN 1 300 000 and hire three new employees.
In 2011 the Starachowice SEZ issued 10 business activity permissions for projects jointly worth PLN 129 071 500 which will create at least 131 new jobs. (Starachowice SEZ)
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