Wood seller Bigimp on Thursday laid the cornerstone of a HUF 178 million wood industry incubator in Zalaegerszeg (W Hungary).

Bigimp won a HUF 125 million grant from the New Szechenyi Plan for the investment.

The 1,213sqm incubator has five workshops and five offices. Eight local companies will move into the incubator when it is completed at the end of the summer.

Bigimp has signed cooperation agreements on the incubator with the local woodworking trade school, the Pannon Wood and Furniture Industry Cluster and the Western Hungarian University Wood Industry Engineering Department.