The production unit in Timisoara also serves other Continental units globally, running tests on products, including for factories in Serbia and Mexico.
Inaugurated 17 years ago, the factory in Timisoara is one of the seven Continental factories in Romania. It specializes in the manufacturing of pipes for vehicle air conditioning systems, for the power steering and chassis control systems, as well as for transmission and distribution belts. The production unit delivers some 26 million items annually.
Between 1999 and 2018, Continental had invested nearly EUR1.6 billion in its five Romanian divisions. Continental Group has seven production units and four engineering centers in Timisoara, Sibiu, Carei, Nadab, Brasov and Iasi, respectively.
End-2018, its engineering centers and production units in Romania had more than 20,000 employees, of whom one third specialized in software and IT&C, electrical, mechanical and process engineering.
Continental’s turnover grew by at least 15% in 2017, to over EUR3 billion; data for 2018 are not yet available.