After a construction time span of nine months, Hanover-based ContiTech AG has inaugurated a production plant for hose lines in northern Serbia.
The plant has already been supplying customers in the auto industry since October 2012. The site employs about 150. The head count is expected to climb to 250 by year's end.
ContiTech invested more than 10 million euros in the new facility. Certified to all required quality standards, the plant expands the production capacity of hose line specialist ContiTech Fluid Technology, a ContiTech business group. Subotica assembles hose lines for the powertrain and supplies these to European automakers. Each year, the plant produces 1.8 million units, broken down into about 80 different parts.
Citing one of the location's major advantages, Matthias Schönberg, head of the ContiTech Fluid Technology business group notes: “Subotica offers an excellent logistical hookup to our customers. Further advantages are a local labor market that offers just what we need and close proximity to sister plants in Szeged, Hungary, and Timișoara, Romania.”
There is enough room to eventually expand further on the plot in the bonded zone in the Mali Bajmokindustrial park. The production hall originally erected there measures 7,200 square meters (77,500 sq. feet).
ContiTech Fluid Technology produces hose line systems for the auto industry as well as for the plant and machine engineering, oil production and numerous other industries. In 2012, it had more than 14,000 employees.
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