P&G opens a plant in Poland

P&G company confirmed that a new Gilette plant was opened last month in Łódź city, Poland. The plant is already prepared for working in the full operation mode. The plant will manufacture razors and blades and also produce packages and realize products storage.

Construction of the plant cost the company 120 mln. euros and it was supported by the government of Poland in the framework of the foreign business attraction policy. The plant takes up over 92000 square meters being the largest Gillette plant in the world, it will manufacture 1.5 billion pieces of products for export all over the world annually. By the end of the year about two thousand people will be working there, thus, the plant will become one of the biggest employers of Lodz city. Presently the unemployment rate in Poland is one of the highest ones in Europe: over 15 %.

Apart from the recently opened one P&G owns one more plant in Poland that is located in Warsaw. It manufactures Pampers diapers. It is the third largest diaper manufacturing plant of P&G with 600 employees. To date many cosmetics companies and cosmetics package manufacturers including Rexam and Polimoon establish production in Poland.

Source:www.cosmeticsinrussia.com