Hyundai Motor’s Czech plant will reach full capacity of 300,000 cars a year next autumn and will hire another 650 workers this year, a spokesman has said.

Petr Vanek told Reuters the plant would hire 1,000 new people to run at full capacity.

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The factory currently employs 2,600 and produced 200,135 vehicles in 2010, of which 97% were exported.

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