Panattoni has completed another built-to-suit (BTS) development. US manufacturer of production line components Maxcess has opened what is now its main European manufacturing plant in Fałkowo. Through investing PLN 60 million (ca. €14 million) in this project, the company will be able to double its current workforce.
Maxcess has been present in Poland since 2006 and till now has operated a manufacturing plant of 6,000 sqm with a staff of 160 people in Bugaj just outside Poznań. Because the new manufacturing plant is situated near its former factory the company is able to retain its team. Meanwhile, the company is planning for its future growth over the coming years, which should gradually lead it to double the number of its staff. Having been opened in the first days of July, the new factory has more than twice the amount of space with an area of 13,500 sqm and it was developed to the tenant’s precise specifications.
“We feel immense satisfaction because the Maxcess factory is a complex construction that exactly meets the innovative vision of our client and it was built in an extremely short time with just seven months between the launch of construction work and the building’s eventual handover. In order for production to be optimised, the building has been fitted with equipment including overhead cranes, busbar electrification, compressed air piping, gas channelling and hi-tech water installations. The development of such an advanced project in such a restricted time frame was only made possible by the partnership approach demonstrated by both the tenant and the local authorities, for which we are sincerely grateful”, says Maciej Zawada, BTS Development Director at Panattoni.
“Panattoni BTS were quick and meticulous in developing a tailor-made centre for us with the optimum technology already being planned out at the design stage. This has provided the best possible working conditions for over 40 production machines. We have now put a very challenging period behind us. Upon completing an efficient but intense period of construction work, it took us just three weeks to relocate to and open up our new factory. With such operations our primary goal is to safeguard the business interests of our partners, which means we had to organise our deliveries in such a way so that our customers would not take notice”, says Paweł Kasprzak, the operations director of Maxcess in Poland and he adds: “This is one of our company’s four largest factories and it is also the main Maxcess production centre in Europe. It is to supply all of Europe with 10% of its production destined to go beyond the continent. Now we can think of further growth. We will also be able to extend the factory by a further 30-35% in the future.”
