“West End Knitwear Ltd.”, one of the biggest knitwear factories in Ireland is transferring its production facilities to Siauliai, a town in Northern Lithuania.
Published:
10 April 2001 y., Tuesday
The Lithuanian company “Kildaris” named after an Irish town of Kildare will knit sweaters from natural wool for the Irish and US markets. “Kildaris” purchased 1,300 m2 production facilities and started to knit traditional Irish sweaters a month ago.
“West End Knitwear Ltd.” transferred their production facilities to Siauliai because of cost-effective labour and of the mad cow disease spreading in the West. As the main market for the Irish company is the USA, they want to have their production facilities in a country that is free from BSE” said Mr.Saulius Gabrys, Director General and owner of “Kildaris”.
The joint Lithuanian-Irish project was implemented in 4 months. Lithuanians invested USD 50,000 in production facilities, whereas the Irish company brought the equipment and trained the specialists. Up to now a half of the Irish factory has been transferred to Siauliai. The rest will come in July. The value of the equipment is USD 1 million.
“Kildaris” will employ 40 people and will knit 20,000 sweaters per month.
Šaltinis:
lda.lt
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
The European Commission today concluded on the existence of excessive deficits in Cyprus, Denmark and Finland and recommended deadlines for their correction to the Council.
more »
Over 2000 former construction workers in Spain and nearly 600 ex-employees of Irish glass company Waterford Crystal and its suppliers will receive a total of €11 million in aid from the EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund to help with training, business start-ups and job guidance under plans agreed by MEPs and the Council of Ministers.
more »
MEPs on Tuesday decided six top priorities and a number of additional key issues for the upcoming negotiations on the 2011 budget.
more »
The EU-China Science and Technology Week starts today at the heart of World Expo Shanghai.
more »
European Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard and European Investment Bank President Philippe Maystadt agreed on Monday to explore a joint climate finance initiative for developing countries as part of the European Union commitment made at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen last December.
more »
Sustainability, competitiveness and security of energy supply: the three pillars to the foundation of a new EU energy community.
more »
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht and Palestinian Minister of National Economy Hasan Abu-Libdeh today discussed measures to enhance EU-Palestinian bilateral trade relations and to facilitate trade of Palestinian products to EU markets.
more »
Some of the most innovative and exciting transport research projects funded by the EU are being showcased at the Transport Research Arena (TRA) in Brussels this week.
more »
Nowadays we rely heavily on satellite positioning and navigation, but the only available technology is American.
more »
The European Commission will reveal how it aims to revamp its transport networks policy in response to the challenges of the 21st century at a conference dedicated to the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) in Zaragoza on 8 and 9 June.
more »