Jaguar will use 17-inch ContiPremiumContact 5J and ContiEcoContact 5J tires. Continental Anvelope Timisoara will supply 15,000 tires to Jaguar.
Since it started production in Romania in 2000, Continental Anvelope invested EUR370 million in technology, employee training, environmental protection and corporate social responsibility programs and created around 2,300 jobs in Timisoara.
By the end of 2014, Continental had invested around EUR1 billion in its Romanian operations. Continental has seven production units and three research and development centers in the country.
Continental had around 15,000 employees in Romania at the end of last year and plans to hire 1,500 more this year.