After conquering the U.S. market with stunning rapidity, flat-panel TVs are booming in Europe too. And unlike the U.S., Europe's technological sweatshops aren't on the other side of the world, but tucked neatly within its own borders. Poland will see LG.Philips to thow up a mass production plant that will produce 11 million flat panels a year by 2011. Sharp and others have already started building theirs
The former Soviet satellites, now being sucked into the spreading politicial gelatinocracy we call the European Union, offers educated labor that'll work cheap. Typically, however, this is accomplished by getting on a boat and moving to England. Will investment slow this westward drain?
LG.Philips aims to make 11 mln modules by '11 Poland [Reuters]
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