Transylvania car part producers work in four shifts, seven days a week to fill orders

Major domestic car part producers employing tens of thousands of people particularly in Transylvania plants have switched from a two or three-shift working schedule to a four-shift one, after the number of orders from West European clients has risen this year.

Germany's Schaeffler Romania bearing producer, with turnover worth more than 235m euros in 2009, has this year switched to a four-shift schedule in the wake of rising orders from its main clients.
On the rising orders, the company announced it would boost its number of employees, to around 3,200 by yearend, from 2,874 in 2009.
Owing to the soaring orders in the automotive field, companies with a limited production capacity have found themselves unable to take over all the orders despite extending the work schedule. "(...) Despite expanding the work schedule to seven days a week, we're now facing an ongoing increase in the number of orders from our clients, but, because of our limited production capacity we cannot take all the orders," Andreea Tioc, the representative of Marquardt Schaltsysteme of Sibiu, told ZF.