Nippon Seiki expands Gdańsk office and team

23 października 2019

Just over a year since opening its new office in the Argon building in Gdańsk, Nippon Seiki (Europe) BV is doubling its leased office space to over 1,500 sq. m. The expansion has been made possible thanks to the growth of the local engineering centre and it taking on new tasks as part of the company's global strategy.

When we opened the new office in November 2018, we were planning to double our workforce within a few years. We have achieved that goal in just a few months. Moreover, further company investments in Poland and the opening of our factory near Łódź have resulted in even more work for our office in Gdańsk, which means we will need a larger office and more employees

Wojciech Gutowski, Nippon Seiki Poland branch manager

Nippon Seiki Group is a world leader in the design and production of Head-Up Displays (HUDs), employing 15,000 people. Founded in 2002, Nippon Seiki (Europe) BV is headquartered in the Netherlands and is controlled directly by Nippon Seiki Co. Ltd., located in Nagaoka in Japan. The Gdańsk branch is one of the few local companies in northern Poland operating in the automotive industry, directly subcontracting for leading auto manufacturers in the world. The Gdańsk team of engineers work together with their colleagues in Germany, the UK and Japan, and have direct contact with Nippon Seiki clients as well. The office employs mainly specialists working in the specification, design, creation and testing of driving information systems software.

In order to meet the increased needs of the European division and the new factory, the Nippon Seiki office in Gdańsk will create new positions in administration and engineering. The design and development activities are conducted in Gdańsk in cooperation with other engineering centres in the Group. These include system design, software development, system testing and diagnostics, and the design of electrical, optical and mechanical sub-systems.

We currently employ nearly 60 people and hope to expand to 130 within two to three years. This marks another stage of the expansion of the Gdańsk office and I am sure it will not be the last.

Wojciech Gutowski

The Polish engineering office is currently undertaking complex projects, which, in the near future will form the equipment used in many premium vehicles. The team is constantly learning and expanding its skills thanks to working together with engineers from Japan and other European offices. In the next few years, the input of the Gdańsk team is set to increase as the above-mentioned products will be fully designed and assembled in Poland.

There is a huge potential for the development of sophisticated, advanced onboard information systems in modern cars. Currently, we are witnessing a Head-Up Display boom, which we are happy to address being one of the leaders in this field. With the increased demands for new functionality like 3D graphics and imaging of augmented reality, as well as the need to meet the contemporary demands of functional security, including cyber security and protection of information, our workplace has become stimulating and challenging. This is why we would like to attract more enthusiastic and talented people to our already experienced team. This will allow us to meet the increasing demands of clients and create even more interesting products. Our investment in Poland is an integral part of our global development strategy.

Steve Poll, Nippon Seiki Europe managing director

The new, expanded Nippon Seiki office will begin operations before the end of the year and its interior will be arranged by the Torus design team. The owner of the Argon building is the ISOC Group.

Argon is the third stage of the Alchemia business centre and is developed by Torus. The building offers over 38,000 sq. m of space, including 36,000 sq. m of office space. At the beginning of March, the building was purchased from Torus by the Philippines-based investor, the ISOC Group. The approx. 92m EUR net transaction was the highest ever for Torus and the Tricity office market. The ISOC Group invests mainly in industrial infrastructure and real estate sectors. In Poland, the company has already bought the Silesia Business Park in Katowice (buildings C & D,) and Business Garden in Wrocław.