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.

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

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