ZANDT, GERMANY -- Zollner Elektronik will invest more than EUR 15 million ($17.5 million) in a new production building here, the EMS company announced.

The investment will finance a 12,500 sq. m. (135,000 sq. ft.) building, which the company will use for manufacturing FDA approved medical products.

The first phase of production is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2018.

Zollner will hire an unspecified number of worker to staff the addition. At capacity, the new building will accommodate 65 office and 220 production staff.

"This new expansion has become necessary due to a steady increase in customer requirements as well as those from local and international markets, including adequate cleanroom production," the company said in a press release.

Zollner, the world's largest privately held EMS according to the CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY Top 50, is headquartered in Zandt.

Read CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY's July 2017 profile about Zollner here.

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