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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 October 2017
Employment effect (start)
18 October 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
The Romanian subsidiary of the American process management solutions firm, Emerson, will create up to 200 jobs at its site in Cluj-Napoca. Positions will open in engineering, information technology, production (including production line workers), finance, human resources, marketing and customer support. In 2017, the company invested €2.1 million into modernising the equipment for the production line at the Cluj-Napoca plant.
Emerson employs approximately 2,300 people in Cluj-Napoca, Oradea and Bucharest, most of which work on site at Cluj-Napoca.
The company’s production from Cluj-Napoca serves mainly European clients.
Emerson has been operating in Romania since 2006, when the Cluj Napoca site was opened.
Sources
18 October 2017: produsinardeal.ro
18 October 2017: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Emerson, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 92298, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92298.
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