A quiet Czech city that helps Europe in the Global Chips War

The city of Rosenov, Bodd Radostm, is known for its sweet pies moisturized with the Roman drops, and the Open Air Museum showing its historic log cabins, a statement was stirred in which stationary and quiet water was moved. Last June, the US chip industry chose “at SemianticCtor Corp-Ansemi), Rosenov, to establish a new $ 2 billion manufacturing center. Over the past few weeks, a series of visits to the city of real estate developers have seen, president of a local university and government officials, who chase them in their movement. not, and this is not the surprise of the biggest investment. The more we can produce locally from this new technology, the better for our economic safety, “Minister of Trade and Industry said. The investment that makes” Ansimi “modest compared to some technology projects in other regions of Europe. However, the current Rosenov factory plays a major role in the business because it produces semiconductors and designs, which are very important for the Czech economy for the highest Employment from the automotive industry and traditional auto parts. Jobs will deliver jobs over the next seven years, expecting “Ansimi” that annual revenue in Rosenov will double four times, at least $ 1.2 billion. Because the expansion on the most profitable silicone carbide connections will focus with higher production capacity. However, the first challenge is to ensure that the city with a population of 16 thousand people can absorb this expansion. To calm anxiety among the locals about the lack of schools, doctors and housing, Mayor Yan Kosira announced a plan to build between 300 and 400 new apartments, while the city will spend the $ 85 million equivalent to improve local roads, parking lots and other services. “Every mayor’s dream is an investment in the field of super technology of a business you already know will attract learners. That’s exactly what we’re waiting for,” Kossira said in the Rosenov Library, which has been renewed. The opportunity to join the city to the next new industrial era contrasts a blatant contradiction with the challenges facing the surrounding region around the city of Ostrava, which is only one hour by car. Since the end of communism in 1989, the eastern part of the Czech Republic has suffered from a sharp decline in traditional mining and mineral industries, in addition to chronic unemployment. Only this summer has declared an inactive steel manufacturer in Ostrava bankruptcy after it was unable to pay energy accounts and the salaries of its employees, who count about 5,000 employees. The development of semiconductor production in Rosenov dates from Rosenov’s semi -conductor production to the first days of the Cold War, when communist Chicoslovakia moved a large part of the electronic industry there from a place near the German border. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the group called ‘Tesla Rosenov’ was taken apart, where its electronic slide unit was sold to the leading company “Motorola” in the field of cell phones, and later became part of the “Ansimi” business, which was separated from it in Arizona. The new facility will undertake the entire manufacturing process, from the production of silicone car resort crystals to the final product instead of dividing it between the “Onesimi” sites on three different continents. This means that the slides will soon be made from customers in the automotive industry, and that they traditionally lead the industry to the Czech economy, which is now suffering from a rapid increase in wages, global supply chain disorders and competition from Chinese electric cars. A month after the announcement of Rosenov’s expansion, ‘Ansimi’ signed an agreement of a few years to deliver silicone carbon chips to the company ‘Volkswagen’, which owns the dominant Czech “Skoda Auto” business. Over the past three years, Volkswagen and Skoda have been forced to reduce or suspend the production several times due to the interruption of the supply of discs, mostly in Asia. Helena Horska, chief economist in the Czech unit of the “Rivizen Bank of International”, and adviser to Prime Minister Peter Valla, said the expansion of the Rosenov factory “is an important step in the efforts to reduce the European Union’s dependence on imported goods and strategic components.” She added that this investment with the use of “Onesimi” chips can also help in the solar panels to reduce the country’s dependence on cars. The project is a special opportunity for the city. The company “Ansimi” is still negotiating with the Czech government and the European Union on financial support, which can cover about a quarter of the investment. And if things are going well, the company plans to start building a new production hall through the current complex in Rosenov next year. A Rosenov resident, Ivana, said she saw the project long benefits for the Czech Republic, but that she expressed concern about the pressure on public services as a result of the flow of new workers. She added as she walked with them on the main square in the city, that it was already difficult to find a dentist for her young children. “My feelings are mixed. I know it’s important for the country, and a good propaganda from Rosenov. But I’m concerned about the local influence,” said Evana, who refused to define her full name when talking to the media. In fact, politicians and business leaders welcomed the project and promoted it as a valuable opportunity for a country that one day was a symbol of the economic shift from communism to the free market. The lowest unemployment rate in the European Union has shown that it is a curse and not a blessing: the increase in wages for many years has exceeded the growth of productivity, which has contributed to the inflation crisis the country is still suffering from. The Czech Republic has even begun to fail the poorest local peers when it comes abroad, especially in new technologies. A year ago, ‘Intel Corp’, along the establishment of a $ 4.6 billion dollar chips, chose the collection and test of electronic chips, while the neighboring Hungary became a European center for the production of electric motor batteries. According to Alice Cap, head of the US company in the Czech Republic, ‘Ansimi’ wants to help fill this vacuum. Car and other electronic chips are expected to meet buyers with at least two decades with new supply chains once established. “Now is our chance to catch up, and such an opportunity is available once every very long period,” Cap said on the company’s website in Rosenov.