The Japanese electrical equipment manufacturing company will transfer part of its production from China to a new plant that will be opened in 2024 in the city of Feteşti. The factory will have 300 employees, and the building in which it will work is already there, but will be modernized and equipped. Why did the Tamura company decide to invest 21 million euros in Romania?
The Japanese considered locations in Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria, but chose Romania for logistical and geographic reasons. The Romanian operations will be part of the Electronic Components Business unit.
Tamura Corporation manufactures electrical equipment, chargers, electric vehicle engine components, as well as transformers and various modules used in the solar and wind energy industries.
Tamura officials announced Monday in Bucharest that in October or November 2024 they will open a factory in the Feteşti Gare district of the Fetești municipality, which will employ 300 people and initially produce chargers for hand tools made in Romania by another company. Japanese company: Makita.
The second phase of investment will produce transformation modules for companies such as ABB and Siemens. Previous investments amount to 6 million euros, and another 15 million euros will be invested for business development.
Tamura executives say they will move some production out of China because they need new production facilities in the EU, as the company has small plants in Germany and the Czech Republic. Tamura has 3,000 employees in China, and 10% of them will move operations to Feteşti.
Tamura’s bosses say they chose Feteshti also because the small provincial town has better prospects for finding a workforce. The main reason is the location of the town of Jalomitsa: close to the port of Konstanz (80 km), but especially to Brenesti, where the Japanese Makita has a large power tool factory.
Tamura will initially produce chargers for the power tools produced in Brenest, and with 130 km between the two plants, production will be able to instantly correlate with demand. In general, it will be much more efficient to manufacture chargers close to the company that buys them (Makita) instead of manufacturing them several thousand kilometers away in China.
Tamura started its business in 1924 by manufacturing radio receivers. The company currently has 5,000 employees worldwide, including several hundred in Europe, about 1,500 in Japan and 3,000 in China.
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