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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
180 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
24 January 2018
Employment effect (start)
24 January 2018
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
Local subsidiary of Swedish car safety systems manufacturer Autoliv is to hire 180 people in 2018 in all six plants in Romania. The company currently employs 11,300 people across its plants in Lugoj, Brasov, Resita, Prejmer, Sfantu Gheorghe and Onesti, and its research and development (R&D) centres in Timisoara, Brasov and Iasi.
In 2017, the company announced the opening of new research and development (R&D) in Iasi where 200 new jobs were created.
Autoliv opened its first plant in 1997 in Brasov and it produces car safety systems.
Sources
24 January 2018: Ziarul Financiar
25 January 2018: bizbrasov.ro
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Autoliv, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 93158, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93158.
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