Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, intends to make a planned northern Romanian factory its largest by the end of 2009, Ziarul Financiar said.

The factory, to open on Feb. 11 near the Romanian city of Cluj, is hiring about 100 people a week and intends to employ 3,500 people, the newspaper said, without saying where it got the information.

Growth of the factory partly depends on the government's intentions to improve local roads and infrastructure and expand the nearest airport, the newspaper said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Adam Brown in Bucharest at abrown23@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: January 21, 2008 00:56 EST