Lipetsk Special Economic Zone Development
3.The expansion of Indesit Company in the Lipetsk Region
until 2005
After the take over of Stinol in 2000 by Merloni Elettrodomestici spa, now Indesit
Company, an expansion path was started. During this path the company built two
more plants in 2004 and 2005, thus increasing the production volume.
In order to have a general idea of the path followed by Indesit Company, it is possible
to divide it into three main phases of its expansion.
The first phase is characterised by high production costs per unit and focused on the
take over of Stinol, turned into the first Merloni factory in the area.
The second phase is based on improving productivity and efficiency of Stinol, and
during this time a second plant for washing machines was built.
The plant was necessary to balance production levels between Eastern and Western
Europe, because 86% of the total volume was produced in the Western plants against
sales amounting to 67%. It was opened in April 2004.
Lipetsk, Stinol factory. The first pole of the washing machine plant
Source: Merloni Progetti spa Milan, 2003
The plant was built within a period of 12 months because 400 people worked
continuously on it and the volume of investments amounted to 50 million US Dollars
against an output capacity of about one million units per year. The plant covers a
surface of 25,000 square meters and employs about 1,000 workers. In its first year the
plant improved productivity by 14%.View entire presentation