According to the officials of the company the 800 to 900 people were working in the Emerson campus in Cluj at the beginning of this year. The plans are to boost the number of employees in Cluj to 2,800 over the next few years.
“We achieved this year’s target, 1,500 employees in Cluj. The recruitment campaign will not end here, as we will hire quite a lot of people once Emerson’s plant in Oradea (NW Romania) becomes operational,” Calin Banciu, Emerson’s general manager for Romania told ZF Transilvania. “Moreover, recruitment for Emerson’s plants in Cluj will continue in 2013.”
Emerson announced in September this year that it planned to expand capacity in Romania by a EUR50 million investment in a manufacturing and support center in Oradea. The investment due to begin in early 2013 in Euro Business Park in Oradea will create 1,500 jobs over the next few years.
The Emerson official did not reveal what products would be developed in the plant in Oradea, merely saying that the new location would include manufacturing, engineering and support operations.
Emerson currently has six production facilities in Tetarom II in Cluj. Its facilities manufacture electrical equipment and equipment for the energy industry.
Other than manufacturing operations, Emerson also has engineering, financial, IT, commercial and administrative support operations in Cluj.
Emerson plans to expand its capacity in Tetarom II with a EUR15 million investment, which will add 28,000 square meters of space to the already existing 35,000 square meters. When construction work is over, it will hire about 900 people in Cluj.
The company had previously said the total investments in the Tetarom II park would amount to more than EUR125 million. The products and services of the company in Cluj are included in projects mostly for the Western Europe.
Emerson SRL, based in Cluj Napoca posted more than 205.7 million lei (EUR45.3 million) in revenue and almost RON28.4 million in net profit in 2011, according to the Finance Ministry website.
“2012 was a good year for Emerson, and a very good year for our business in Cluj. We are on schedule with our budget this year,” Banciu said.
The US group entered Romania in 2006 and inaugurated its facility in Tetarom II in 2008.
Emerson is a diversified global manufacturing and technology company. It offers products and services in the industrial, commercial and consumer markets, through its Process Management, Industrial Automation, Network Power, Climate Technologies and Commercial & Residential Solution businesses.
Emerson has approximately 133,000 employees and 235 manufacturing locations worldwide and posted $24.2 billion sales last year, up 15% on the previous year, according to its website. (EUR1=RON.4.5388)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)