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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25.72 - Manufacture of locks and hinges
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 December 2020
Employment effect (start)
14 December 2020
Foreseen end date
31 December 2021
Description
Huf Romania, a subsidiary of the automotive supplier Huf Group, specialized in the manufacturing of secure car access and authorization systems, announced the creation of 250 new jobs. The new employees will work at an extended production facility in Arad. 130 people will be hired by May 2021 and another 120 by the end of year.
Apart from the production site in Arad, the company owns three additional facilities in the city of Timisoara, western Romania: its European Software Development Centre, a newly established testing facility and the Shared Service Center Finance of the Group. The Centre employs about 200 engineers working on software development.
Huf Romania was established in 2006 and in 2019 the company employed a total workforce of 528.
Sources
14 December 2020: company official press release (www.huf-group.com)
Eurofound (2020), Huf Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 102989, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/102989.
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