JOB AIR Painting will paint Airbuses and Boeings in the Ostrava region

JOBAIR Painting has won the title of Investor of the Year 2009 in the Manufacturing Industry category. The company received the award for its project involving the construction of a centre for painting aircraft at Leoš Janáček Airport in Ostrava. ŠKODA AUTO and CCI Czech Republic finished in second and third place, respectively. The winner in this category received the crystal block today at 7:00 p.m. during the celebratory announcement of the results of the tenth annual Investor of the Year 2009 competition organised by CzechInvest and the Association for Foreign Investment.

“The implemented investment in the aircraft paint facility is connected with our company’s overall project to build a large-scale repair centre in Ostrava. In the first phase, a maintenance facility was built, followed by the paint facility in the second phase, and in the third phase we are focusing on components maintenance,” explains Daniel Barč, director of JOB AIR Painting.  

The paint facility will be able to service BOEING, AIRBUS, ATR, SAAB, BOMBARDIER and EMBRAER aircraft. In the newly constructed hangar, which is equipped with all necessary technology for painting aircraft, it will be possible to simultaneously park two aeroplanes the size of an AIRBUS A320 or BOEING 737.

Dozens of new jobs are being created in the Moravia-Silesia region thanks to the paint-centre project. Due to JOB AIR Painting’s investment, LeošJanáček Airport will become one the most important aircraft-maintenance locations in Europe.

ŠKODA AUTO won second place in the Manufacturing Industry category for its project to invest in the expansion of its existing transmission plant in Mladá Boleslav. Within the project, ŠKODA AUTO plans to purchase new manufacturing technologies and buildings in connection with the expansion of its production of MQ100 transmissions.

The third-place award in the Manufacturing Industry category was presented to CCI Czech Republic, which in 2009 decided to invest in the construction of a new factory for the production of pressure and regulator valves for the energy sector in the Brno-city district.

Investor of the Year is a competition organised each year by CzechInvest and the Ministry of Industry of Trade in cooperation with the Association for Foreign Investment (AFI). The general partner of this year’s competition is the ČEZ Group; the partners are ČSOB, the National Gallery, QUIX and Zátiší Catering. The media partners of the event are Euro, Z1, E15 and Strategie.

The competing investment projects are evaluated by a committee composed of representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the AFI, CzechInvest and previous winners. For the first time this year, the celebratory announcement of the winners was realised in conjunction with the announcement of the results of the Business Property of the Year competition. The awards were presented to the winners today at 7.00 p.m. at the Cloister of St. Agnes of Bohemia in Prague.

BRIEFLY:

Investor of the Year 2009 – Manufacturing Industry

1st place: JOB AIR Painting a.s.

2nd place: ŠKODA AUTO a.s. 

3rd place: CCI Czech Republic s.r.o.

For more information please contact the CzechInvest Press Centre

Štěpánka Filipová, spokesperson, phone: +420 296 342 538, stepanka.filipova@czechinvest.org

Contact to the AFI:

Martin Michalov, PR and Marketing Manager, tel.: +420 224 911 750, martin.michalov@afi.cz