Kia Motors has completed its first European car plant here and expects mass production to be underway by the end of the year.
Kia Motors, an affiliate of South Korea’s largest auto manufacturer Hyundai Motor, began constructing the 1 billion euro ($1.2 billion U.S.) factory in Zilina in October 2004. The Kia Motors Slovakia plant already employs 1,200 workers and plans to hire up to 3,000 workers by 2009 to build around 300,000 cars a year.
Hyundai Motor also plans to build its first European plant at Nosovice in the eastern part of the Czech Republic where full production of 300,000 cars a year is expected by 2008.
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