{"id":2860,"date":"2021-12-21T18:24:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T17:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate.haier-europe.com\/press-release\/haier-started-production-in-its-brand-new-iot-industry-4-0-cooling-plant-in-romania\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T15:50:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:50:51","slug":"haier-started-production-in-its-brand-new-iot-industry-4-0-cooling-plant-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/test-corporate.haier-europe.com\/en-gb\/press-release\/haier-started-production-in-its-brand-new-iot-industry-4-0-cooling-plant-in-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"Haier started production in its brand-new IoT, Industry 4.0 cooling plant in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Haier started production in its brand -new IoT, Industry 4.0 cooling plant in Romania Haier announces that the company\u2019s first cooling factory in the European Union, Haier Tech Romania, started its production. Th e facility manufacture s best -in-class refrigerators, both built -in and freestanding, for the 3 brands of Haier Europe \u2013 Candy, Hoover and Haier. Haier Tech is located in the Allianso Industrial Park at Aricestii Rahtivani, near Ploie\u0219ti, about 70 km away from Bucharest, and started earlier this year the production of best -in-class refrigerators with focus on connectivity, preservation and reduced energy consumption. With an investment exceeding more than 70 million Euros, the plant features latest IoT, Industry 4.0 innovation s and covers an area of 63,000 sqm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will employ more than 800 employees who are supported by robots and cutting -edge machinery and will have a production capacity of over 1 million refrigerators per year to serve both domestic and international markets, thus representing the biggest cooling export hub for Haier in Europe. \u201cI\u2019m extremely excited and proud to announce that, despite all the challenges and headwinds, our teams managed to deliver on time and achieve this milestone for Haier in Europe.\u201d says Yannick Fierling, Chief Executive Office, Haier Europe \u2013 \u201cThis first cooling production facility in the EU will allow us to shorten our logistics and time to market, in line with our zero distance with consumers core value and vision to be the first consumer choice for smart home solutions. \u201d The Romanian plant is a first -class factory featuring premium production processes than ks to Haier\u2019s advanced R&amp;D, manufacturing capabilities and know -how. It features the company\u2019s COSMOPlat platform, the world&#8217;s first industrial internet platform that allows whole -process user participation and mass customization centered on user experience. The platform &#8211; which has been promoted and replicated outside China in different industries around the world &#8211; invites customers to engage in every step to deliver products and services that best meet their needs. Haier Tech will serve the Euro pean market and consumers and it will represent a strategic pillar in the leadership\u2019s consolidation path of the Company in the refrigeration segment worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also demonstrates the company\u2019s plans to expand further the production site to significantly increase capacity in cooling and potentially other product\u2019s categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haier started production in its brand -new IoT, Industry 4.0 cooling plant in Romania Haier announces that the company\u2019s first cooling factory in the European Union, Haier Tech Romania, started&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8624,"parent":0,"menu_order":98,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"press_releases_categories":[90],"class_list":["post-2860","press-release","type-press-release","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","press_releases_categories-manufacturing"],"acf":{"attachment":5574,"brand":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-corporate.haier-europe.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/2860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-corporate.haier-europe.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-corporate.haier-europe.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-corporate.haier-europe.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-corporate.haier-europe.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test-corporate.haier-europe.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/2860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11512,"href":"https:\/\/test-corporate.haier-europe.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/2860\/revisions\/11512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-corporate.haier-europe.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-corporate.haier-europe.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"press_releases_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-corporate.haier-europe.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases_categories?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}