BUCHAREST (Romania), August 9 (SeeNews) – The Romanian unit of Germany’s Siemens said on Tuesday it has finalised the expansion of two of its four plants in Romania and added new production lines.
The two factories are located in the central city of Sibiu and in the western town of Buzias, Timis county, the company said in a press release.
The Sibiu factory was relocated in a 110% bigger building and now spans over an area of 7,800 sq m. Production was expanded to include an electrostatic paint section for industrial and railway carcasses already produced here, thus aiming to cover the entire value chain from a single source.
The Buzias factory was extended with a third production facility with a total area of 1,200 sq m. Siemens will start producing here synchronous motors for industrial machinery.
The factory already manufactures components and cooling systems linear and Torque motors, with application in direct drive systems, and asynchronous motors. It was Siemens' first factory in Romania, established in 2002 on a 400 sq m surface. Today, the factory spreads on 3,300 sq m.
Siemens had 1,780 employees in Romania at the end of September last year and is active in the areas of electrification, automation and digitisation.
It owns three factories in Sibiu, operated through a single entity - SIMEA Sibiu SRL and one Buzias. It also operates two research and development centers in Brasov, and another two in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.
The company opened its first office in Romania in 1905 under the name "Romanian Society of Electricity - Siemens Schuckert Societe Anonyme".
For the fiscal 2015, which ended September, Siemens Romania posted a turnover of 157 million euro ($174 million), up 15% on the year, driven by positive developments in the automation market and the oil and gas sector, while medical and transport segments remained stable.
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