FEI Opens New Technology Center In Czech Republic

(RTTNews) - FEI (FEIC) Thursday announced the opening of a new technology center in the industrial estate of Cernovická Terasa, Czech republic. With a surface area of 27.000 square meters, it is the largest technology plant built this year in the Czech republic. FEI invested 800 million Czech crowns or about $38 million in the new building and the construction took 18 months to complete.

FEI is a manufacturer of electron microscopes, and the price for some of its most powerful microscopes can reach tens of million crowns. This year it was awarded "Best Employer" of the South Moravia region. The Moravian metropolis is important to FEI due to its strategic location and availability of a high-quality, skilled workforce.

"While FEI has had operations in Brno for almost 20 years now, we are pleased to expand our manufacturing, laboratory and office capacity in the region. The larger facility will employ about 600 people and produce approximately 60 percent of our entire electron microscope production," states Jirí Ocadlík, director-general of FEI's Czech republic facility.