Japanese company Fujikura will open two more plants in Ukraine
The Japanese electrical equipment manufacturer Fujikura Automotive Ukraine Lviv plans to open two more plants in Ukraine. The First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Stepan Kubiv posted the news on Facebook.
"We completed the meeting with Keidanren where we worked on Ukraine-Japan investment projects. Fujikura Automotive Ukraine Lviv plans to expand the work of the enterprise and increase the staff of employed workers from two thousand to three thousand people, and also to open two additional plants with an area of 10 thousand square meters each in Vinnytsia and Cherkassy,” Kubiv wrote.
According to Kubiv, the Japanese business federation Keidanren unites the largest companies, large industry associations and economic groups of the country. Keidanren is considered an entrepreneurial lobby of Japan and an analytical center of Japanese entrepreneurship.
Keidanren studies a wide range of domestic and foreign economic problems, carries out market research, and maintains contacts with organizations of private entrepreneurs in other countries.
It was previously reported that in April 2016, Fujikura opened an electrical equipment and spare parts plant in Lviv and another plant in September 2016 in Rava-Ruska, Lviv region.