2 feb 2015

2015 is due to be a year of growth as Romania is faring well in macroeconomic terms, so that there are hopes fiscal issues are also to be reviewed in the sense of supporting investments, says Adrian more

29 ian 2015

Bucharest builder Delta ACM 93, controlled by businessman Florea Diaconu, expects flat revenue in 2015 against last year, of around EUR100-105 million. more

29 ian 2015

The local building materials field, accounting for around one third of the overall construction market, is set to rise by 3-4% this year, after stalling at around EUR3.2 billion in 2014. more

26 ian 2015

French builder Bouygues is getting ready to take on construction projects again in Romania, after having put the local business on stand-by at the onset of the crisis in 2008-2009. more

21 ian 2015

Bucharest’s Beltway has never been a priority for the government so twenty-five years after the fall of the communist regime, vehicles travel this road at an average speed of merely 17 kilometers more

19 ian 2015

Romania's construction industry, which has contracted by around 45% since the beginning of the crisis, lost around 109,000 employees between 2008-2014, namely almost one quarter of the entire more

13 ian 2015

The local construction market, one of the hardest hit during the crisis, further declined last year, by 10-15%, to 8.2-8.6 billion euros, according to data provided by the Romanian Association of more

8 ian 2015

Craiova-based window and door system producer Casa Noastra, which sells QFort brand, ended 2014 with revenue worth almost 160 million lei (EUR36 million), up 13% from 2013. more

7 ian 2015

Hidroconstructia, one of Romania’s largest builders, which is carrying out contracts worth above $200 million in the Kurdish area of Iraq, is having trouble completing projects in this country more

6 ian 2015

Romania will only open 10 kilometers of highway this year, between Pecica and Arad, after having started no new highway construction site in 2012 and 2013. The reason is the procrastination of the more

25 dec 2014

Brand has become a solid argument in end-consumers’ buying decision on the building materials market as well, a market that amounts to RON13 billion annually. While clients have started mainly more

19 dec 2014

2014 meant fewer investments in transport infrastructure and also fewer inaugurations. Compared with 2013, when over 100 km of highways and a new bridge over the Danube, in Calafat-Vidin, emerged on more

19 dec 2014

The Romanian construction field, one of the hardest hit during the crisis, contracting by over 40% between 2009 and 2014, will resume growth starting next year, when it will see a 5.4% increase, more

15 dec 2014

The transport sector got 6.3 billion lei (EUR1.4 billion) this year, but just RON4.65 billion (EUR1 billion) were spent. For 2015, the RON6.1 billion (EUR1.4 billion) budget is 30% higher on paper, more

9 dec 2014

On a construction market that continued decline to almost half of the boom year level, insolvencies and bankruptcies affected not only the lower ranks of the industry but also the large companies. more

4 dec 2014

Romania’s road authority CNADNR paid 16 billion lei for national road projects during the 2008-2014 period and during the same interval repaired 2,900 kilometers of such roads, that is less than one more

1 dec 2014

The residential segment was the most stable segment of the construction sector this year, says Marius Dragne, chief executive officer of the Romanian branch of German masonry materials manufacturer more

27 nov 2014

Romanian and Middle Eastern markets both offer great opportunities for development that must be carefully evaluated, maximized and converted into business, Saudi prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal more

14 nov 2014

Door and window manufacturer Pinum Doors & Windows, part of Italy’s group Nusco, will open a PVC joinery plant in Pipera next January, in the wake of EUR1 million investments. more

7 nov 2014

Romania’s national company in charge of highways and national roads CNADNR paid EUR4.3 billion for highway projects in 2008-2014 and the highway network only increased by 373 kilometers, to 644 more

3 nov 2014

Radu Ouatu, the businessman who owns one of the largest construction companies in Romania, Apolodor Com Impex, says that he has seen some private investment activity in 2014, which led to the start of more

31 oct 2014

The Romanian window PVC profile market will end 2014 with an overall 15% decline against 2013, reaching a value of below EUR250 million, from EUR1 billion in the boom period, says Aurel Vlaicu, more

30 oct 2014

The local housing sector stalled this year as well, while state-funded thermal rehabilitation works also registered a decline, so that polystyrene producers mainly counted on small works carried out more

26 oct 2014

Cement producer Carpatcement Holding, the local subsidiary of Germany’s HeidelbergCement group, posted ‘slight growth’ in sales on the year in the first nine months of 2014 which is expected to more

15 oct 2014

The Romanian market has two main growth opportunities, coming from European funds and exports, maintains Bela Varga, general manager of Rehau Polymer, the local subsidiary of Germany’s group Rehau. more