Bulgaria Partners with Rheinmetall to Build High-Tech Arms Plant and Create 1,000 Jobs

Bulgaria and the German defense giant Rheinmetall have finalized a strategic agreement for the construction of a modern plant that will produce gunpowder and 155-mm NATO-standard artillery shells on Bulgarian territory. The project, valued at nearly 1 billion leva (500,000 euros), will be developed as a joint venture located within the facilities of Bulgaria’s largest state-owned defense enterprise, the Vazov Machine-Building Plants (VMZ) in Sopot.The official signing ceremony will take place in the presence of Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov....Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Novinite Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Novinite