VW Slovakia Launches Construction on €90M Press Shop

Construction works on the new press shop started on Wednesday, October 25th. The €90-million investment will create 97 jobs. With the new press shop production will intensify and it will also have a positive impact on the circulation time for materials and logistics processes, company chairman Andreas Tostmann told the SITA newswire.

Production of pressed metal parts is slated to start in late 2013, with a capatity of 19,000 parts per day. According to the head of the press shop, Dietmar Neels, VW Slovakia has just started recruiting new staff. The facility will have one of the most modern presses in the region, and will process steel and aluminium sheets into car body panels, bonnets, roofs, bumpers and doors.