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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
145 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
7 September 2020
Employment effect (start)
7 September 2020
Foreseen end date
31 December 2020
Description
Star Assembly, part of the Daimler group and manufacturer of parts and accessories for motor vehicles, announced the creation of 145 new jobs, resulting from an investment of €250 million for the production of the two-step automatic gearbox which started to be produced in Sebes (Alba county, Centre region) in February 2019.
Star Assembly and Star Transmission are the Romanian subsidiaries of Daimler in Sebş and Cugir, and are key pillars in the Mercedes-Benz Cars global value chain and currently employ more than 3,000 employees.
Eurofound (2020), Star Assembly, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 101799, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/101799.
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