Once the three scheduled phases have been completed in 2010, the Park, close to Shanghai and located in a high-density industrial area, will cover a surface area of more than 500,000 m2, providing jobs for over 3,000 people and will have involved a total investment (land, site development, buildings and services) in excess of 100 million euros.
The Park’s first phase, inaugurated today, has required an investment of 15 million euros. It covers a developed area of 85,000 m2, housing the subsidiaries of four cooperatives with a total workforce of 650 people. LKS has been charged with the design of these four plants, which have been built by Chinese firms:
… Orbea (5,300 m2) has a workforce of 30 people and plans to produce 60,000 bicycles a year for the Chinese and global markets, especially for the US, Russian, Japanese and Australian ones.
… Oiarso (4,200 m2), with 20 people in its workforce, manufactures medical equipment for the health sector (different kinds of catheters, kits, transfusion and anaesthetic appliances, etc.), which it markets throughout the world.
… Orkli (9,300 m2) employs 200 people to make heating systems and safety thermocouples, a product for which it is a global leader. Its output is destined for the sector’s foremost Chinese and Japanese manufacturers.
… Wingroup-Dikar (18,200m2) has 400 people on its staff, producing fitness and household gym appliances for the global market, above all for China and the rest of Asia.
The second phase of the Kunshan Park consists of an area of 200,000 m2, where building work is currently under way on industrial premises for the cooperatives Batz, Fagor Industrial and Fagor Arrasate. They all plan to begin their operations in the first half of 2008. Batz will manufacture pedal modules, whereby China will complete the global order placed by General Motors as part of the Epsilon Platform. Fagor Industrial is to produce a full range of equipment for the catering sector. Fagor Arrasate will make automated lines and presses for the automotion, household appliance and steel sectors.
As for the third phase, an agreement was signed on October 17th this year reserving 200,000 m2 of land, whose development and subsequent construction of buildings will be undertaken in 2008 and 2009, with plans afoot for the installation of five more companies.
Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa (MCC) now has 10 production plants operating in China, providing employment for 1,500 people. In addition to the four subsidiaries now operating on the Kunshan Park (Orbea, Oiarso, Orkli and Wingroup), there are a further four subsidiaries that were up and running before them, which are the following:
Irizar Tianjin (250 people), a manufacturer of luxury coaches; Copreci China (85) in Zhuhai, dedicated to the production of components for household appliances; Dikar-Ningbo Wingroup (100), which produces tents; Fagor Automation (40), located in Beijing, where it manufactures numerical controls and display screens; Fagor Cookware in Shanghai (270), making pressure cookers; and Nantong Huarong (100), dedicated to the production of industrialised systems for construction, and located in Dongchen.
In 2008, MCC will have 14 production plants in China with over 2,000 jobs, as these ten companies will be joined by the three currently under construction within the second phase of the Kunshan Industrial Park (Batz, Fagor Arrasate and Fagor Industrial) and by the joint-venture between Fagor Electrodomésticos and the US Corporation AO Smith, now at the construction stage.
In addition to these companies, MCC has a corporate representation in Beijing with its corresponding office in Shanghai and nine commercial offices for purchases and sales in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Chongqing and Guangzhou.
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