Rexam, the British plastic packaging company has opened its first plant in Poland. The new facility, located in Lodz, southwest of Warsaw, is the first manufacturing plant dedicated to Rexam Home & Personal Care in Central and Eastern Europe. The company has over 23,000 workers worldwide.

Meanwhile, Italian car components and systems producer Magneti Marelli, part of Italian industrial group Fiat, will invest the equivalent of €7.9m in Poland. The automobile parts producer will lease production space from Fiat Auto Poland in the Katowice Special Economic Zone and create 400 new jobs.