The new factory is now open. They will double the workforce.

The new Maxcess plant in Fałków covers 13,500 sq. m. of area. This is more than twice the company’s current plant in Połaj near Poznań, which has a capacity of 6,000 people. sq. m – reports epoznan.pl.

– Our factory is one of the four largest factories in the company and also the main Maxcess production factory in Europe. It will serve the entire European market, and 10 percent of production will go outside the continent. Now we are starting to think about further development. In the future, we have the opportunity to expand the plant by another 30-35%, – Pawel Kasprzak, COO of Maxcess in Poland, said in the press release.

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Currently, the company employs 160 people, but thanks to the opening of a new factory worth PLN 60 million, it eventually wants to double that number.

Maxcess is an American manufacturer of production line elements – explains epoznan.pl. It has been present in Poland since 2006.

The average gross salary in the corporate sector in June 2024 amounted to PLN 8,144.83, which means an increase of 11% year on year – the Central Statistical Office reported last Thursday. Meanwhile, corporate employment fell 0.4% in June. RDR.

According to ING BSK economist Piotr Poplawski, the smaller extent of the employment decline than in May is mainly due to the base effect, i.e. the employment decline in June 2023, and not to an improvement in the labor market situation.

“New data point to a gradual deterioration in labour market conditions, which responds with some delay to a weaker economic situation in 2023 and the first half of 2024.”“This is particularly evident in processing and management,” said an economist at ING BSK in a comment.

“However, supply constraints, including a declining working-age population and an influx of migrants, mean that the labour market remains tight. It is worth noting that according to Eurostat methodology, Poland has the second lowest unemployment rate in the world. “In addition, a series of minimum wage increases and adjustments to high inflation in the past have kept wage growth at a double-digit level,” he added.

The estimated unemployment rate recorded in June was 4.9%. It was 0.1 percentage points lower than in May – the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy announced in early July. The last time the unemployment rate fell was in August 1990.