New gasworks in Rybnik
23.08.2007

Messer Poland, a Polish company with German capital, will build at a cost of 29 million EUR a plant producing liquid gases for industry at Rybnik, in the Katowice Special Economic Zone (KSEZ). In the new plant work will be found for 10 people.

Towards the end of August, the firm received permission for the investment in the Rybnik sub-zone of the KSEZ. By the end of 2009 a plant producing oxygen, nitrogen and argon will come into operation on a 2.5 ha site; the work will be done in a three shift system, 24 hours a day. At the highly automated plant only two people will be needed to work each shift.

The Messer Group, with a 99.5% holding in the Polish company belongs to the largest suppliers of technical gases, specialised gases and welding equipment. The firm has been present in Poland since 1992. To date it has opened its branches in Warsaw, Poznań, Środa Śląska, Police and Kędzierzyn Koźle; whist its gases are produced in Chorzów, Kędzierzyn Koźle, Police and Środa Śląska.

Messer Poland is another new investor this year within the KSEZ. Throughout the whole of 2007 the Zone's management expects to gain investments of a value of approximately 1 billion PLN, and as a result to create work for 3.1 thousand people. Established over 10 years ago the KSEZ is now the largest of the 14 Polish economic zones.

Source: PAIiIZ