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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.31 - Manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment for motor vehicles
840 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 May 2016
Employment effect (start)
26 May 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
German engineering and electronics company Bosch is to hire 500 people at the Cluj and Blaj plants. The group intends to invest 40 milllion Euro in these plants. Bosch Romania produces electronic control units for driving assistance, safety components and systems for automotive and power management. Recently new projects on mobility solutions have been introduced at the Jucu and Blaj plants. The Cluj plant will focus on connectivity and industry 4.0 solutions.
In Romania, Bosch Service Solutions has 3,200 employees in Cluj (Cluj County), Blaj (Alba County) and Timisoara (Timis County).
Bosch is a German group which has been operating in Romania since 2000.
Update, 14 June 2016: German group Bosch is to hire 340 people at car component manufacturing plant plant in Jucu, Cluj County, north-western Romania. Up to 100 positions are for operating technicians and some 110 are for administrative clerks, but there are also jobs for production and automation engineers, programmers, division managers and electricians. According to media reports, the Jucu plant has tripled its production capacity since its opening in May 2014.
Sources
27 May 2016: Digi 2424.ro
26 May 2016: Wall-Street.ro
26 May 2016: 0-100.hotnews.ro
14 June 2016: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Bosch, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 87605, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87605.
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