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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
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 November 2017
Employment effect (start)
23 November 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
German global automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG will hire 150 persons at Cristian plant (Brasov County) by the end of 2018. The company is planning to invest €39 million into constructing two new productions halls. The two new halls will support logistics and the development and research units. In 2012, the company inaugurated its own engineering centre in Cristian.
Schaeffler entered the Romanian market in 2006 and has 4,400 employees at the Cristian plant.
Globally, the company has 84,000 employees.
Sources
23 November 2017: bizbrasov.ro
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Schaeffler Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 92626, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92626.
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