Unisys Espana SA has announced a plan to extend its plant in Catalonia and to start manufacturing Unix-based mutli-user systems as from next year, thus becoming the first company to install a production plant in Spain for systems based exclusively on Unix. The company will continue to produce CTOS-based commercial workstations but next year will start manufacturing models 51, 55 and 60 of the mid-range, then in phase two, the low range models U6000/10 and U6000/31 will be manufactured there and then ultimately the multi-processing systems to be announced in Spain some time next year. The new factory is expected to supply the European market, exporting around $104m worth of sales in 1992. The factory near Barcelona will cost the company $10.4m, will be 45,000 square feet in size and will use the same production equipment as its counterpart in the US – all of which means it can be ramped up to handle high volumes of production.
