Germany’s Leoni AG is on track to expand its Ivano Frankivsk workforce six-fold over the next three years, to 5,000 workers

Germany’s Leoni AG is on track to expand its Ivano Frankivsk workforce six-fold over the next three years, to 5,000 workers, a Leoni spokesman tells bne Intellinews in an article on EU auto industry investment in Ukraine. Auto production languishes at 615 Skodas a month – 15% of capacity — at Ukraine’s sole functioning car factory, Eurocar near Uzhgorod. But employment in German car parts factories in Ukraine is 35,000 – and expanding,