JAPANESE COMPANY PLANT IN COMRAT 99% READY FOR LAUNCHING

Production capacities of the Fujikura Automotive company (Japan) in Comrat are 99% ready to be launched, said administrator of the local industrial park Nicolai Todorov in an interview to the portal Gagauzinfo.MD.

He said that the Gagauzia Executive Committee and the Comrat Primaria fulfilled the liabilities to the investor: former storage at the city outskirts have been repaired and prepared for installing the production, while Fujikura Automotive representatives are already installing equipment there.

“The production facilities, offices are being equipped and arranged”, he said.

According to Todorov, comfortable conditions have been created for working personnel as well. The production department was equipped with an air-conditioning system. There are also locker-rooms, shower stalls, bathrooms. Permanent temperature of 23 degrees will be preserved in the building.

The launching is planned for the beginning of March. Now, 180 specialists on working and engineering specialties are being trained. In future, the Japanese investor intends to raise personnel many-fold, to build a plant with an area of 10 thousand square meters in the territory of Comrat industrial park.

As Infotag has already reported, in 2016 Fujikura Automotive MLD has won the contest for the right to become resident of the Expo-Business-Chisinau Free Economic Zone and declared the intention to invest 3.2 million euros for opening a production of cables there. In April 2017 it opened a plant in Chisinau.

Fujikura is world producer of electric components for automobile industry, electronics and telecommunications. It was founded in 1885. The company’s headquarter is located in Tokyo, but it has offices in many countries, in particular in Germany, Romania, Spain, Ukraine and Russia.