The total capital expenditure on this project will come to more than EUR 60 mln. The 44,000 sqm facility, which is being built on an 18 ha site close to the A6 motorway and 2 km from the German border, is to be used to house all the stages of manufacturing forklift trucks. The first of these should run off the production line in 2021, while the plant itself should reach full capacity in 2023, when it is expected to employ around 150 people. “In the project for Linde, Panattoni Europe is responsible for the entire development, from preparing and securing the land and property, obtaining all the permits and decisions, developing the building itself, coordinating all the changes required to install all of Linde’s machinery inside including the acceptance procedures and handing over the keys to the centre,” said Marek Dobrzycki, one of the managing directors of Panattoni Europe.
The company is also to develop the Panattoni Park Bydgoszcz II industrial complex, around 6