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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.
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 January 2019
Employment effect (start)
16 January 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
The Romanian subsidiary of the American process management solutions firm, Emerson, will create up to 150 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. Emerson employs approximately 2,500 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.
Previous restructurings took place in 2017 (200 jobs created) and 2016 (250 jobs created).
Eurofound (2019), Emerson, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 96639, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96639.
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