The new plant, Daimlerʼs second in Hungary, will create 2,500 jobs. It is being built on an area of 382,000 square meters and will have a press shop, a body-in-white shop, a paint shop and an assembly line, national news agency MTI reported.
The facility will be a “Full-Flex Plant,” one in which “several vehicle architectures from compact models to rear-wheel drive sedans and various drive forms, including electric vehicles, can be flexibly produced on one line,” said Markus Schafer, member of the divisional board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Manufacturing and Supply Chain.
In addition to Schafer, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, Kecskemét Mayor Claudia Pataki Szemerey, and Christian Wolff, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary, participated at the groundbreaking ceremony.
Szijjártó said the Hungarian government is supporting the investment with a EUR 37.5 million grant, adding that the ratio of Hungarian supplier contributions to the Daimler plantʼs output rose to 50% in 2017, from 30% in 2016.
