The manufacturing facility will be constructed on the 60-hectare site where a Continental tire plant is currently being set up. Both facilities will be able to share the existing infrastructure there. The Fluid production hall measures 4,800 m2, and an administration building will also be constructed. The workforce in the new Fluid plant is expected to increase to 160 by 2015. The first employees are already being trained in Germany. The plant will initially supply air-conditioning and power steering lines for Renault/Dacia and power steering lines for AvtoVaz (Lada). In future, all products for the Russian market are to be manufactured directly on site owing to the better proximity to customers.
With a population of 350,000, Kaluga is one of the centers of the Russian automotive industry. It is located some 170 km southeast of Moscow, midway between the automotive regions of St. Petersburg, Moscow and Togliatti. A number of ContiTech's customers, including Volkswagen, PSA/Citroën and Volvo Trucks have already established production facilities in Kaluga and the surrounding area.
With sales of around €1.3 billion and 14,000 employees, ContiTech Fluid Technology is the largest business unit within technology company ContiTech, which generated sales of around €3.6 billion in 2011 and employs a workforce of 29,000.