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SAE Spotlights Polish Automotive Operations

20 January 1999

SAE Spotlights Polish Automotive Operations

    WARRENDALE, Pa., Jan. 19 -- Three top officials of the Polish
government will join Polish and U.S. business and industry leaders in a
far-ranging discussion of the Polish automotive industry at the 1999 SAE
International Congress & Exposition at Cobo Center, Detroit, Michigan,
March 1-4.
    Each year at SAE Congress, the SAE Overseas Meeting Group sponsors a
"Spotlight" on a prominent auto-producing country.  This year's event
spotlighting Poland will take place on Wednesday, March 3, from 4:30-6:30 p.m.
in Room O2-33 Cobo Center.
    Poland ranks as the second largest automobile production country in
Eastern and Central Europe.  Such major manufacturers as Ford, General Motors,
Honda and Daewoo have plants in Poland.
    Tadeusz Lisek, Director of the Ministry of the Economy; Dariusz Klimek,
Deputy-Secretary of State, Ministry of the Economy; and Janusz Kipigroch,
Chief Chief Expert in the Department of Industrial Policy, Ministry of
Economy, Poland, will join seven other executives from the United States and
Poland to explore the challenges facing the Polish auto industry.
    Dr. Josef Mack, General Motors Corporation and chairman of the Overseas
Meeting Group, will introduce the panel.  The moderator is Stephan G. Toth,
Chief International Analyst in the Emissions Controls Analysis and Planing
Department of Vehicle Environmental Engineering, Ford Motor Company.
    The SAE Congress is the world's largest showcase of automotive engineering
technologies.  The event features more than 1,100 exhibiting companies,
including 90 percent of the world's top 25 suppliers.
    Contact SAE at 1-877-SAE-CONG (723-2664) for all SAE '99 information;
outside the U.S. and Canada, call 1-724-772-4027; or visit http://www.sae.org.