| Leoni AG, Germany, has recently opened its new Leoni Wiring Systems UA GmbH production facility in Stryj, Ukraine. Investing a capital of more than 40 million euros, the company has built one of Europe�s most modern and largest wiring systems plants, covering an area of more than 40,000m2. Up to 3,500 employees will be manufacturing cable harnesses for the successor models of Opel�s Astra and Zafira best-sellers. Leoni will be the principal supplier for these new General Motors cars with responsibility for all the wiring of these vehicles, apart from the engine and transmission. Pilot production for this major customer began back in September 2002 in a leased facility. The go-ahead for mass production will be given in October 2003.
Completion of the new wiring systems facility in Stryj has now provided the production capacity needed for this large-scale contract. This will involve supplying several thousand cable harnesses every day to all the final assembly plants of the Astra and the Zafira across Europe. �Having built this new wiring systems plant in Stryj, we now have the production capacity required to meet these demands. We thereby simultaneously met the precondition for further growth of Leoni Wiring Systems�, commented Mr Uwe H. Lamann, management-board member responsible for the division. Accounting for more than 50% of total sales, this business division is already Leoni Group�s largest segment. Leoni plans involve this major order from General Motors generating overall sales of euro 1.2 billion over the full term of the project.
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