US powersports group Polaris Industries, which includes the Victory and recently-relaunched Indian motorcycle brands in its portfolio, has begun construction of a second European production plant at Opole in Poland. The company already has a quadricycle micro-car facility at Aix-les-Bains in France, following acquisition of Aixam Mega in April this year.
The new 33,000 sq.m factory is located at Opole’s Walbrzych Economic Zone Invest-Park, in southern Poland near the Czech border. When complete, it will include 25,600 sq.m of dedicated production space manufacturing quadbike and side-by-side ATVs for the European market, plus warehousing and offices. This unit is scheduled to become operational by the second half of 2014.
Besides plants in the USA producing ATVs, motorcycles and snowmobiles, Polaris also makes ATVs in Mexico.