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  • Opel Zafira From Gliwice

    07/12/2004 11:29:58 AM PDT · by Grzegorz 246 · 1 replies · 226+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | 7 July 2004
    Opel Zafira From Gliwice The next-generation Zafira will be manufactured in the second half of this year in the Opel factory in Gliwice. The new car will be also produced in the Opel plant in Bochum, Germany. The Zafira is the third model, after Agila and Astra Classic II, from Gliwice. Production will take place in a three-shift system and the plant's production capacity will be fully used. The company also plans to increase employment by 700. Zafira will be sold both in Poland and abroad. "Not only competitive labor costs, but first and foremost high quality, record time in...
  • GM expansion in Poland angers German unions

    06/26/2004 6:17:27 AM PDT · by Grzegorz 246 · 28 replies · 580+ views
    Financial Times ^ | Published: June 25 2004 19:53 | By Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt
    General Motors, the US carmaker, angered German trade unions on Friday by announcing that its Opel subsidiary would expand production of its new Zafira family car in Poland rather than at Rüsselsheim, its main German factory. The announcement comes a week after GM reorganised its European operations, which also include the Saab and Vauxhall brands, to centralise control in Zürich, Switzerland. Opel said its works in Gliwice, Poland, offered "significant competitive advantages" compared with the group's other production facilities. Production of the Zafira in Gliwice will be in addition to that in Bochum, Germany, it said. The expansion by GM...