In early 2022, the company’s officials announced they needed another 100 people at the plant. Overall, the plant has 450-480 employees. In early May, it planned to bring welders, locksmiths and electricians from Vietnam for the Arad plant, where it started producing trams for Bucharest, as it could not find the necessary workforce on the local market.
Astra Vagoane Calatori owns two plants in Arad and currently each of them produces between 25 and 30 trams per annum.
In 2021, the company doubled its turnover and for 2022 it expects a flat figure. The company entered the ranking of the most dynamic firms in industry by 2020 turnover evolution.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)