The new PAIiIZ Base of Co-operative Projects gathers information on projects run by Polish communes, towns, regions and enterprises.
The Base of Co-operative Projects is a kind of Internet platform which enables entrepreneurs, representatives of local administration, foreign investors and other interested parties to transfer and get information on possibilities to buy or sell properties, join a project, and about projects run in the frame of public-private partnership.

B2B meeting for companies active in the IT/ICT sector from Eastern Poland and Israel. The Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency invites companies from the IT and ICT sectors to take part in a matchmaking session with companies from Israel. The session will take place on March 29th, 2011 in Warsaw.
There are already 20 companies from Israel which applied to take part in the session. Profiles of the applicants are available after registration at:
http://www.enterprise-europe-network.ec.europa.eu/public/bemt/registration.cfm?eventid=2588&layout=3

Polish-Ukrainian Memorandum of Understanding. On February 3rd, 2011 the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency together with the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and the Ukrainian State Agency for Investment and National Projects signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Co-operation.

Hamilton Sanstrand in Rzeszów - The American company chose Rzeszów for its project located in the production and services sector
The new factory will produce and repair APU engines (auxiliary power unit) which power aircraft during parking on an airport ramp and constitute an emergency power source during flights. The project is expected to cost EUR20 million and should create 250 workplaces. Investor was granted a business activity permission to develop the investment in the Special Economic Zone EuroPark Mielec.

Federal Mogul extends its operations in the Tarnobrzeg SEZ - The company will construct two new production lines for the production of engine pistons
The investment will substantially increase the level of production and will help the company distribute more products to European markers. To make the products meet clients’ expectations in this project Federal Mogul will pay special attention to the implementation of new technologies. The project will cost EUR75 million and will create 20 new jobs.

Investor’s recommend PAIiIZ’s services - Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency is perceived as a professional institution with comprehensive knowledge regarding Polish market and vital contacts essential in the investment process in our country.
PAIiIZ was rated by foreign investors at 4,5 points. It is the highest note that the Agency received since the research has been conducted (in 2009 - 4,1 and in 2008 - 3,7).
The Agency is perceived by most of the companies that took part in the survey as a very important partner in the investment process. The first contact with PAIiIZ was rated very highly, as well as the staffs professionalism. However, 29% of the respondents were not sure at the beginning what kind of services and help they may expect form PAIiIZ.

Uflex Group to invest in Poland - Uflex first European manufacturing project was supported by the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency and will be located in Poland.
India’s UFLEX Group (formerly known as the Flex Group) is one of the world’s 5 largest manufacturers of flexible packaging films (flexible laminates & pouches, plain and metallised BOPET/BOPP/CPP/coextruded films). In keeping with its core policy of being as close as possible to its customers, it is taking a major step forward in its international operations by investing in a large manufacturing facility in Europe. Its first European manufacturing project will be located in Poland. The first phase of this operation will be the setting up of an 8.7 meter wide/500 meters per minute Biaxially Oriented Polyester (BOPET) Film line and a high-barrier plasma enhanced vacuum metallising plant near Poznan in central Poland.

SIAL 2011 in Shanghai - PAIiIZ opened a contest in which entrepreneurs active in the food industry in Eastern Poland will be selected and entitled to participate in a trade mission to Shanghai in May 2011 and to take part in the China International Food Products and Beverage Exhibition SIAL 2011.

The visit is organised by the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency in the framework of the project “Programme of Economic Promotion of Eastern Poland” financed by European Union’s Operational Programme - Development of Eastern Poland 2007-2013.