January 16 (SeeNews) - German car maker Daimler said on Wednesday that, together with its Romanian subsidiaries Star Transmission and Star Assembly, will start manufacturing a new type of automatic transmission gearbox on February 7.
Daimler will produce the 8G Double Clutch Transmission gear boxes for Mercedez-Benz cars at its assembly plant in Sebes, in central Romania, it said in a press release.
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This is the latest stage of a 300 million euro ($342 million) investment Daimler launched in 2014. The investment project at the assembly plant in Sebes received 37.4 million euro in state aid at the time.
Daimler makes 5-, 7- and 9-speed automatic gearboxes in Sebes. The car maker also has a manufacturing plant in Cugir, which makes gears, shafts, and mechanically processed components for engines, transmissions, and steering systems.
In March 2017, Daimler invested 36 million euro in a new production facility for planetary gears in Cugir.
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