October 29 (SeeNews) - Slovenian energy equipment manufacturer Kolektor has launched trial production with 30 workers at its plant in Bosnia's Prijedor, some 55 km east of Banja Luka, as the official start of production is scheduled for the first quarter of 2020, local media reported on Tuesday.
The first construction phase is completed and the start of the second phase, which includes the construction of a facility on 9,000 square metres, is scheduled for the end of 2020 or beginning of 2021, news portal Klix.ba reported.
The city of Prijedor is obliged to build the facility up to the construction phase, while Kolektor should arrange the interior and set up the installations, the report said.
Prijedor is located in the Serb Republic, one of two autonomous entities forming Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other one is the Federation.
Kolektor's Bosnian unit, Kolektor CCL, designs, develops and manufactures commutators. It launched a plant in 2005 in Laktasi municipality and later opened two more plants, in Banja Luka in 2015 and Srbac in 2017.