Łódż, Poland - Dell shipped its first product today from its newest manufacturing plant, a 35,000 square-metre facility near Łódź.
“Our customers are now receiving premium class computers ‘Made in Poland’,” said Nicky Hartery, vice president of operations, Dell EMEA. “Locating the facility in the heart of Europe puts us much closer to our customers in the expanding markets of Central and Eastern Europe. And being closer to our customers means we can get product to them faster.”
The site in Łódź is Dell’s second manufacturing facility in Europe; the other being in Limerick, Ireland. The plant construction was completed in less than one year. Initially, 400 employees who trained in Limerick will operate the plant with the employment expected to increase to 1,100 by January.
Dell began production in Poland with its Latitude™ and Inspiron™ laptops. Plans call for desktop computers and servers to be added to the products assembled there. Customers in Scandinavia will be served by the plant in addition to those in central and eastern Europe.
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