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This obscurity is somewhat understandable, given concerns about industrial espionage and safety issues. Merve Bedir et al., eds., Automated Landscapes (Rotterdam: Nieuwe Instituut, 2023).
Plamen Panchev, CEO of Sienit, has stated in numerous media interviews that the process of building the Ferrero factory was an eye-opening experience regarding the possibilities of industrial development, how global production works, and how Plovdiv can be a player in the European landscape of industries. “Plovdiv's Road to the Industrial Center of Bulgaria,” ECONOMIX.BG (blog), March 16, 2017, ➝.
This is based on data provided by TEZ management. However, TEZ doesn’t gather systematic data on the number of workers but rather relies on data provided by Industry Watch, an economic analyst in Plovdiv. Industry Watch itself stated that they do not gather data specifically for the TEZ but for the whole region. Therefore, the exact number is unclear.
“Haskovo is now part of Trakia Economic Zone,” Manager BG News, March 23, 2017, ➝.
Hara Yochi, “Industrial Pollution Improvement Project in Plovdiv, Bulgaria” (Kuklen, Bulgaria: Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting, 2005).
Boyanov Boyan and Kehaiov Yanko, “Lead and Zinc Smelter (KCM AD), Bulgaria and Soil Contamination: Past, Present and Future,” in Sustainable Industrial Processing (Summit SIPS 2011): Volume 5, Environmental, Policy, Health, Legal, Management, Economical & Social Issues (Montreal: FLOGEN Star Outreach 2012).
Elke Beyer, Anke Hagemann, and Philipp Misselwitz, “Commodity Flows and Urban Spaces: An Introduction,” Articulo-Journal of Urban Research, no. 21 (2020).
Miroslav Pazdera, “The Shed-the Architecture of the A-Class Standard,” in Steel Cities: The Architecture of Logistics in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. Katerina Frejlachová, Tadeáš Říha, and Martin Špičák (Prague: Vi Per and PARK Books, 2020).
POLICY Links, “Emerging Trends in Global Manufacturing Industries,” University of Cambridge 12 (2013).
Aamna Mohdin, “The Fastest Shrinking Countries on Earth Are in Eastern Europe,” Quartz, January 24, 2018, ➝.
Jennifer Wolch, “Zoöpolis,” in Environment (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), 275–301.
Kingdom of Bulgaria, General Directorate of Statistics, “General Results of the Census of the Population in the Kingdom of Bulgaria on December 31, 1910” (General Directorate of Statistics, Sofia).