The company will manufacture parts for carmaker Ford initially and will then serve other global customers.
“In addition to initially supporting Ford, our new Romanian operations will offer sealing and fluid handling products to our other global customers,” Cooper Standard’s chief operating officer Keith Stephenson said in a press release.
The company will open a manufacturing facility and offices in Craiova and, at full capacity, is slated to employ at least 150 people.
Cooper Standard has operations on 19 markets in Europe, America and Asia.
U.S. carmaker Ford bought Romania’s Automobile Craiova in 2007. In the first four months of this year, Ford made nearly 3,000 Transit Connects at its Romanian plant.