Nokia to Build Mobile Phone Plant in Romania
SDA-India writes…Nokia is planning to set up a mobile phone manufacturing facility in Romania. Nokis said it would spend USD 60 million on the plant, which will come up in the county of Cluj in Romania, one of the former communist countries in Eastern Europe.
which will be the company’s 11th mobile device production facility globally.
Nokia selected Cluj as the location for the plant because of the availability of skilled labour, good inbound and outbound logistics connections, its overall efficiency, and the long industrial tradition in the area, the company said.
Nokia’s new facility in Cluj is located about 400 kilometers northwest of Romania’s capital Bucharest. The construction work at Cluj will start in spring 2007 and production is expected to begin in the first half of 2008. Nokia foresees ramping up the factory gradually and will recruit approximately 500 employees there by the end of 2007. As part of the plans, Nokia is looking to establish an industrial village in the area, enabling a number of key suppliers and partners to locate their operations there, the company added.
