“It is an investment project targeting the fundamental overhaul of the general Dacia car painting process. (…) The project will not generate new jobs,” Automobile Dacia representatives told ZF.

Dacia has initiated a voluntary redundancy process to boost the plant’s efficiency as a rising number of robots are installed.

Mihai Bordeanu, Dacia head, explained for ZF that “this is an annual exercise. We are talking about a plant recalibration as we need to adapt to new tendencies, seek new skills. We are talking anyway about annual voluntary redundancies of below 1,000 persons,” he said.

(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)