11.25.2011

Romanian plastic component producer ELJ Automotive Titu has invested EUR7 million into expanding its production capacity, with EUR10 million more to be spent later, and has become a supplier of the more

10.06.2011

Christian von Albrichsfeld, general manager of Continental Automotive Romania and head of the research and development division, says he would like to have a partnership with Ford for car components, more

09.15.2011

Romanian car dealer Radacini Group will take over Daewoo car part sales operations from Ford Romania, and will buy the U.S. carmaker’s entire auto part stock most likely by the end of the month. more

09.13.2011

U.S. carmaker Ford will reach maximum production capacity at its car plant in Craiova, southern Romania, in 2015, and might produce 100,000 B-Max minivans locally next year, Wolfgang Schneider, more

08.22.2011

Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey and South Korea are the main countries the best-selling cars in Romania are imported from, according to a ZF analysis, which shows Romanians prefer German cars the more

08.11.2011

U.S.-based Cooper Standard Thursday announced plans to establish a new manufacturing facility in Craiova, Romania, expanding its global automotive body sealing and fluid handling businesses. more

08.11.2011

The Finance Ministry last year delivered to Ford Romania the first and only tranche of state aid - EUR17.6 million of the total EUR143 million, because the U.S. company invested four times less than more

07.25.2011

Transit Connect utility vehicles, which started to be manufactured by American carmaker Ford in Craiova in the autumn of 2009, are beginning to make a difference in the market for the first time, more

07.15.2011

Christian Welther moved from Pitesti, southern Romania, to Germany more than 15 years ago and has been working at Ford Europe’s Cologne headquarters for ten years. There he designed the bodies of more

06.22.2011

Japanese producer of automotive wiring systems Yazaki Component Technology is investing over EUR10 million to increase production of its Arad plant. The company plans to boost the plant’s capacity more

06.14.2011

Ford Romania will begin making a new B-class model, aside from the B-Max, as soon as it stops production of the Transit Connect van, managing director Henrik Nenzen said Tuesday. more

06.12.2011

Ford has started the production of the B-Max minivan prototypes at its car plant in Craiova, southern Romania, people close to the matter told MEDIAFAX. more

05.31.2011

Ford has committed in the privatization contract signed in September 2007 to manufacture 250,000 cars in Craiova in 2011, a target impossible to achieve considering that only 3,000 cars were built in more

05.25.2011

US automaker Ford produced about 3,000 Transit Connect light commercial vehicles at its car plant in Craiova, southern Romania, in the first four months of the year, four times more than in the same more

05.24.2011

Kirchhoff Automotive, one of the traditional suppliers of American manufacturer Ford, says it will invest over EUR 10 million in a facility in Romania, a plan the German company had dropped in 2009. more

05.20.2011

Authorities in Dolj county, southern Romania, have asked major hotel chains to open a hotel in Craiova, after Ford, owner of the local car factory, complained about the lack of a business hotel to more

05.09.2011

The import unit of Ford Romania, the second largest local carmaker, plans to open ten new centers this year and half of them will be "converted" centers, namely firms that will give up brands they're more

05.05.2011

New car sales in Romania have been three times lower than normal over the past three years due to the economic crisis, Ford Romania president Henrik Nenzen said Thursday. more