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Germany’s Chancellor Schröder at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Liebherr plant in Rostock
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As a means of further extending its international position on the maritime market, Liebherr is building an additional production plant in the port of Rostock, on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast. It will have an area of 220,000 square metres and will be used to build large machines weighing up to 500 tonnes. When the two production buildings and the administrative block are completed, they will occupy 44,300 square metres of the total site area.
On September 16, 2003 Liebherr Group proprietors Isolde Liebherr and Willi Liebherr were able to welcome prominent guests from Federal and State government to the ground-breaking ceremony: Germany’s Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Transport Minister Manfred Stolpe and the Prime Minister of the German State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Harald Ringstorff attended and were able to inform themselves in full regarding this new plant investment, which is of great significance for the entire region.
Rostock is a location with excellent logistics for the sale of large industrial products. The region also has a good pool of labour and at the same time opens up new opportunities for cooperation with partners in Eastern European countries.
In addition to the infrastructural measures valued at 24 million Euro to provide access and services to the industrial site, which were carried out by the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the HERO port development company in Rostock, Liebherr is investing a total of 50 million Euro gross in the construction of the new plant facilities. Production is scheduled to start midway through 2005, and current plans envisage jobs for about 350 people by 2006. |
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