Delphi hires 300 people in Iasi for 100m-euro factory

Automotive components producer Delphi will open its third factory in Romania next month, having allocated 100 million euros for its construction, and announced it has already hired 300 of the 1,000 employees set to work at the factory in the town of Miroslava, Iasi County. The first 40 employees were hired in January 2008, for the factory that will manufacture injection systems for diesel engines. The factory was built based on the rise in demand for technology for less polluting diesel engines, as the introduction of pollution norms will be sped up in the auto industry in the next few years. "Today we have more than 300 employees at our Iasi-based factory. Our plan is to officially start production at the new factory over the next few weeks and to continue to train people until then," said Agnieszka Przymusinska, Delphi's communication manager. Whereas the recruitment of another 700 staff is under way at the Iasi-based factory, the company's Ineu and Sannicolau Mare factories have frozen hiring, with personnel cut by around 3,500 in the last year and a half. Internationally, Delphi posted an 18 billion-dollar (12.9 billion-euro) business, whilst the two factories in Romania recorded over 150 million euros in cumulated turnover, according to the latest available data.