Pöttinger has broken ground on a new €25m plant where it will be building its Impress round baler and Top C four-rotor rake in little over a year.
The new factory is being built at Georgen, just 5km away from the Austrian company’s headquarters in Grieskirchen. The ground breaking ceremony took place on April 30th in the presence of Heinz and Klaus Pöttinger and the management team.
This will be the company’s fourth plant, it also has Bernburg in Germany which predominantly produces drills and Vodnany in the Czech Republic which primarily focuses on cultivators. The company intents to go ahead with its current investment plans.
“The market defines the progress of expansion phases”, explains Jörg Lechner, the managing director responsible for the construction project. “We planned these investments to be cost-effective while keeping an eye on the road ahead.”
The 6,300m2 plant is being built on a 17ha site and there are already plans for ongoing flexible expansion are already in place says the company. Lack of space means the Grieskirchen site is no longer a possibility and the assembly line currently being leased near the headquarters will be need for other purposes next year.
“In the new plant, we will promote living agricultural engineering to the full. Special attention will be paid to maintaining the usual high product quality to achieve the best work results, an ergonomic working environment for the employees and an environmentally friendly building. The investment of EUR 25 million in the first stage of construction is a carefully-planned milestone on the road to further success for Pöttinger”, says Gregor Dietachmayr, speaker of the Execute Board.
