embassy events 2009

Ambassador and Mrs. Ashe Tour Dell's New Plant in Łódź

17 February 2009

Ambassador Ashe and his wife Joan toured the Cinematography Museum during their visit to Łódź

On February 16, after a lunch hosted by the President of Łódź along with the Marshal and the Voivod, U.S. Ambassador to Poland, Victor Ashe, and his wife Mrs. Joan Ashe visited Dell's new production facility just outside of Łódź.  The new plant was completed last year and is already churning out laptops for the entire European market.  It is Dell's most sophisticated and hi-tech manufacturing facility in the world.  The plant currently operates three production lines with 1800 employees and expects to add more production lines and employees when it starts producing PC's in addition to laptops.  Not only is Dell a leading hi-tech employer in the region, it is also a good corporate citizen, having planted over 400,000 new trees around Łódź as part of Dell's green program to reduce its carbon footprint.  It plans to continue to plant new trees for each product it ships.