“This year our turnover has accelerated to 50% growth and we have hired an additional 300 people since December 2020. We currently have 750 employees,” said Ion Bican, the company’s managing director.

The German group is planning to expand with a second manufacturing facility in Curtea de Arges. This will require a EUR25 million investment, EUR7.3 million of which is state aid.

Its current production facility, opened in the fall of 2016, cost EUR20 million.

“Production will start in June. We are nearly done, as we are currently working on exterior fittings,” said Bican.