Oamenii concernului german au venit în România, mai precis în zona de vest, special pentru a găsi locaţia ideală pentru ridicarea noii uzine.
Zona era ideală, în regiunea Timişoara sunt prezenţi deja mulţi producători de piese auto, iar apropierea de Europa de vest plus costurile mici ale forţei de muncă făceau atractivă locaţia. Iar aceasta era undeva în judeţul Timiş, pe drumul ce leagă Timişoara de Arad.
Din păcate, interesele imobiliare şi de tot felul au ridicat semnificativ preţul terenurilor unde ar fi fost situată noua fabrică. Nemulţumiţi de lipsa de seriozitate a românilor, nemţii au decis să rămână în Ungaria. Răspunsul diplomatic oferit de Mercedes Benz s-a referit la lipsa unei infrastructuri de calitate.
Ei bine acum in anul 2016 Mercedes are doua fabrici in Ungaria la Kecskemét unde nivelul investitei este de peste 2 miliarde de euro si peste 5.000 de muncitori unguri.
Noi romanii am pierdut trenul in anii 2000, insa nu trebuie uitat faptul ca de vina au fost cativa baieti inteligenti care probabil ca au cerut spaga pentru a da unda verde constructiei de masini la Timisoara.
Mercedes-Benz is to set up a second plant at its Hungarian site in Kecskemét to produce front- and rear-wheel-drive cars, creating around 2,500 new jobs.
“In the next few years, we plan to invest around EUR1bn (US$1.1bn) building a new plant at our site in Kecskemét,” said Mercedes-Benz Cars divisional board member, production and supply chain management, Markus Schäfer.
“We will establish a [n] efficient production facility, in which different vehicle architectures will roll off the assembly line flexibly.
“With this ‘flex-plant’, we will create additional capacity along with the necessary flexibility according to Industry 4.0 benchmark approaches allowing us to react quickly.”
The second plant in Kecskemét will have a body shop, a paint shop, a final assembly and a supplier park.
Preparatory actions will already start this year; the start of production is planned for the end of the decade.
The investment will create around 2,500 new jobs at the site as well as additional jobs at suppliers in the region and in German plants. The final decision and concrete realisation still depends on the implementation of various conditions.
The Mercedes-Benz plant in Kecskemét has been a producer of compact front-wheel-drive vehicles since 2012. Since then, (as of February this year) more than 500,000 vehicles have rolled off the assembly line.
