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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedFiat expands Tychy to 530,000; Adding room for Fiat 500 and Ford Ka replacement will make Polish plant biggest in the East.
Automotive News Europe, March, 2007
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Byline: Jesse Snyder
To build cars for Ford and itself, Fiat will nearly double capacity at its assembly plant here to 530,000 units by late 2008.
The move is the latest in a central European boom that will add a total of 1.5 million units of production. By 2008, seven other assembly plants in new EU countries plan to either open or substantially expand.
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At Tychy, workers have erected two steel frameworks: one for a second paint shop, the other for what could be a body shop. Both buildings will be used when Fiat starts building the new Fiat 500 minicar in May. In 2008, Fiat ...
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