Germany's MAN builds $92 mln truck plant in Poland

NIEPOLOMICE, Poland, June 20 (Reuters) - German truckmaker MAN on Tuesday began construction of a $92 million factory in southern Poland that would have a capacity to make 15,000 trucks per year from mid-2007.

"The developing markets of central Europe and Russia have forced us to build a new heavy truck factory," MAN board member Lars Wrebo told a news conference.

"We expect to employ 650 people ... expanding the capacity and the factory itself if demand rises," he ...