From HELSINGIN SANOMAT:
http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101977990609
Uusikaupunki car factory prepares for launch of Porsche Boxster's hardtop version
Expansion of Boxster family ensures work for over two hundred additional staff next autumn
The employment situation at the Valmet car factory in Uusikaupunki is expected to improve substantially next year when the plant starts to assemble a hardtop version of the coveted Porsche Boxster roadster.
Production of the recently introduced second-generation model of the popular sports convertible has already doubled the factory's daily output.
Next autumn, the simultaneous output of the roadster and its new hardtop cousin will add a third to Valmet car factory's assembly line workforce.
This will mark a welcome change to the below national average employment situation in the western city of Uusikaupunki.
While manufacturing of the Saab Cabriolet ended in Uusikaupunki in the spring of 2003, and as production of the first-generation Boxster, introduced in 1997, has gradually been wound down, the factory's employment situation has gone from bad to worse.
At one point nearly half of the plant's 1,250 work force were laid off.
At the moment, 750 people work at the factory. Next autumn, an additional 250 people are expected to return to work as production of the coupe Boxster commences.
Production of the second generation Boxster has already caused the factory's output to double from last spring's slump to nearly a hundred cars per day.
Next year, the launch of a whole new hardtop Porsche based on the convertible Boxster's chassis will further boost Valmet Automitive's production figures.
The two-seater sports coupe, scheduled to debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2005, is expected to cost in the region of EUR 40,000 in Germany.
Porsche's plans to introduce no fewer than five new 911 models in the next two years are also being closely followed by Valmet.
The annual production capacity of Porsche's Stuttgart factory is 30,000 vehicles. Valmet Uusikaupunki, on the other hand, can easily double or even triple its current annual output.
http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101977990609
Uusikaupunki car factory prepares for launch of Porsche Boxster's hardtop version
Expansion of Boxster family ensures work for over two hundred additional staff next autumn
The employment situation at the Valmet car factory in Uusikaupunki is expected to improve substantially next year when the plant starts to assemble a hardtop version of the coveted Porsche Boxster roadster.
Production of the recently introduced second-generation model of the popular sports convertible has already doubled the factory's daily output.
Next autumn, the simultaneous output of the roadster and its new hardtop cousin will add a third to Valmet car factory's assembly line workforce.
This will mark a welcome change to the below national average employment situation in the western city of Uusikaupunki.
While manufacturing of the Saab Cabriolet ended in Uusikaupunki in the spring of 2003, and as production of the first-generation Boxster, introduced in 1997, has gradually been wound down, the factory's employment situation has gone from bad to worse.
At one point nearly half of the plant's 1,250 work force were laid off.
At the moment, 750 people work at the factory. Next autumn, an additional 250 people are expected to return to work as production of the coupe Boxster commences.
Production of the second generation Boxster has already caused the factory's output to double from last spring's slump to nearly a hundred cars per day.
Next year, the launch of a whole new hardtop Porsche based on the convertible Boxster's chassis will further boost Valmet Automitive's production figures.
The two-seater sports coupe, scheduled to debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2005, is expected to cost in the region of EUR 40,000 in Germany.
Porsche's plans to introduce no fewer than five new 911 models in the next two years are also being closely followed by Valmet.
The annual production capacity of Porsche's Stuttgart factory is 30,000 vehicles. Valmet Uusikaupunki, on the other hand, can easily double or even triple its current annual output.
