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In September 2004, the Japanese-French automotive supplier TBMeca Poland opened a new €10 million factory of plastic car engine components in Legnica. TBMeca Poland is a joint venture established by two Japanese Toyota affiliates Toyoda Boshoku (30%) and Denso (20%), and Mecaplast of France (50%). TBMeca is the 40th investor in Legnica Special Economic Zone. The factory manufactures plastic components for air filters used in Toyota engines as well as plastic fuel lines.
TBMeca supplies Toyota engine factories in neighbouring Wałbrzych and Jelcz-Laskowice as well as the one in Kolin in the Czech Republic. Some output is exported to France and Great Britain.
The Toyota supplier has picked Poland over the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
As of November 2005, the factory has been built and - as envisaged - is operating with a staff of 100.
Eurofound (2004), TBMeca Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 62063, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/62063.