The new Jensen Metal LSEZ SIA production building – the fifth factory in the Karosta Industrial Park

On March 28, the Liepaja City Construction Board commissioned the new production building of the Liepaja SEZ company Jensen Metal in the Karosta Industrial Park.

The new production facility (5,968 m2) has been built next to two already existing Jensen Metal production facilities – both were built in 2019 and 2022, accordingly. 

Jensen Metal, LSEZ SIA positions itself as a one-stop-supplier of quality components, machines and entire systems in steel, stainless steel, and aluminum with four decades of experience sharing and more than 450 skilled professionals in their team - ready to meet the customer’s needs and requirements and to integrate them completely. 

The Liepaja SEZ CEO Uldis Hmieļevskis: “The municipal investments which have previously been made in the development of the Karosta Industrial Park in arranging the once degraded site with all engineering communications, have paid off.  Indeed – the five recently built production buildings in the park is convincing evidence. Following the successful pattern of the Karosta Industrial Park we now need to take a step further and develop the vast territory of the bankrupt steel works “Liepajas Metalurgs” in a similar manner. It is needed if we want to attract world-class manufacturers with innovative technologies. We have launched a development project that includes construction of engineering communications, lighting, construction of new streets, pedestrian paths, bicycle paths. What has been done in Karosta should also be carried out in the territory of the former “Liepajas Metalurgs” territory.”

• Karosta is a former Russian Imperial and Soviet naval base on the Baltic Sea, which today is part of the City of Liepaja. The naval base was originally constructed in 1890-1906 for Tsar Alexander III of Russia. Built on the bare coast it consisted of a large man-made harbor including a large breakwater and inland submarine base.
• After the World War I, the base was called Kara osta (War Port in Latvian), later shortened to Karosta.
• It was a closed military area and an army town during the Soviet period, serving as a base for the Soviet Baltic Fleet. It was inaccessible to the civilians of Liepaja.
• Karosta Industrial Park – a business development area of 20 hectares, established in 2015 with co-financing of the EU Regional Development Fund.