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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 March 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
Star Transmission, the Romanian division of German-owned car group Daimler, has completed the construction of a new plant in Sebes (Alba) with an investment cost totaling some 300 million euro (USD 334.36mn). Some 500 new jobs are expected be created as a result of this business expansion. The new plant, which will officially open in April, will produce and assemble next-generation gearboxes for Mercedes-Benz cars. The long-term plan is to create 2,000 new jobs in Alba.
Sources
4 April 2014: Wall-Street.ro
15 May 2016: digi24.ro
16 May 2015: Wall-Street.ro
10 March 2016: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Star Transmission, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 86676, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86676.
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