Robert Bosch, which has an electronic component plant in Jucu, near Cluj (NW Romania), got RON97 million state aid for a RON436 million investment and promised to create 554 new jobs there. Bosch got almost one quarter of the state aid for investments with a major impact on the economy in the last two years and three projects funded among the 12 selected in the same time.
Pirelli group announced an additional about EUR200 million investment in the industrial center in Slatina by 2021. The additional investment will expand the plant from 210,000 square meters to 260,000 square meters. The development plan also entails development of the motorsport manufacturing area, with a facility to operate as a backup for the main Formula 1 Pirelli facility in Turkey.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)