• Assembly and production plant (SKD from 2007; CKD from 2009)
• Total investment sum: over €500 mill.
• Land area: 400ha
• 160,000m2 built-on area
• Planned annual capacity from 2009: up to 150.00 vehicles
• First vehicle produced in Kaluga (SKD): Volkswagen Passat / Škoda Octavia
• Employees: 175
• Number of employees to the end of the second expansion stage (CKD): around 3,000 (a large proportion from the Kaluga region)
• Around 10,000 new jobs created as a result of VW investments in the service and supplier industry.
The location of the plant:
• Located approx. 170 km south-west of Moscow
• Situated in the technology park "Grabzevo" in the city of Kaluga, Oblast Kaluga
The management team at Volkswagen Rus:
Friedrich Wilhelm Lenz
Technical manager and spokesperson for OOO Volkswagen Rus (PLC under Russian law)
Volker Riemann
Commercial manager OOO Volkswagen Rus
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