10 oct 2014

Romania’s construction market is not faring well at all as it is contracting amid public investment downfall, says Gabriel Colobatiu, general manager of building materials producer Somaco, owned by more

9 oct 2014

The first nine months of this year were challenging for the Romanian construction sector, as the number of major projects was limited, particularly in the area of infrastructure, says Laurentiu more

8 oct 2014

Fabryo-Atlas Paints group, created in 2013 through the merger between paint and coatings producer Fabryo, controlled by investment group Oresa Ventures, and the building material unit of Atlas more

18 sep 2014

Almost 150 of nearly 200 kilometers of highway under construction in Romania at the moment should be completed in 2016. Works on some sections, such as Lugoj-Deva (2nd, 3rd and 4th sections) or more

16 sep 2014

Production of construction materials in Romania in the first six months of this year saw a 9.3% growth compard to the same period last year, according to data provided by national statistics institute more

15 sep 2014

The first 6.5 km of the Bucharest-Ploiesti highway, which should link Romania’s capital city to the beltway, no longer have a completion deadline, after Italy’s Pizzarotti, which also built the more

9 sep 2014

Austrian group Strabag posted revenue of EUR70.7 million in Romania in the first half of 2014, down 49% on the year. more

1 sep 2014

Romania currently has ten highway sites on which builders are working or are set to start works by year-end, according to a ZF survey based on data provided by the national road authority CNADNR. The more

21 aug 2014

The southern part of the Bucharest beltway (48 kilometers) and the Craiova-Pitesti highway (121 kilometers), two projects the government wants built under concession contracts expected to cost EUR3.7 more

18 aug 2014

Urban stress, crowding and insufficient income are putting increasingly more pressure on the generation aged 35 to 50, which is trying to escape such city dwelling burdens. more

12 aug 2014

While people and investors keep complaining about the lack of road infrastructure, Romania’s national company in charge of highways and national roads CNADNR spent only 40% of the money it should more

25 iul 2014

French executive François Pétry, who took the reins of the Romanian operations of Swiss construction materials group Holcim in February, says the assets put up for sale in various countries amid more

22 iul 2014

The assets that the construction materials groups Lafarge and Holcim want to sell internationally to be able to merge have drawn the interest of 100 potential buyers and some of them want to acquire more

16 iul 2014

Building material producer AdePlast, controlled by businessman Marcel Barbut, renounced the EUR7.3 million state aid it got last year for the construction of a stone wool plant, an investment that more

10 iul 2014

Cement producer Lafarge Ciment, the largest company in Romania of France’s Lafarge, which is to sell its local assets in order to merge with Swiss-held Holcim, posted EUR2.4 billion revenue and more

7 iul 2014

The 20 largest companies in the construction materials business ended 2013 with EUR1.2 billion revenue, an increase of 4% on 2012. Only five Romanian entrepreneurs made it into the top 20, while the more

13 iun 2014

The volume of construction works registered an 8.7% decline in the first four months of this year against the same period of 2013, with engineering and infrastructure works posting the deepest fall, more

10 iun 2014

US Bechtel, which built part of the Transylvania highway in Romania and Turkey’s Enka, its main subcontractor, ended last year with more than EUR110 million net profit together in this country, more

9 iun 2014

Swedish constructions and ventilation systems provider Lindab is ready to consider acquisitions or investments from scratch, both in Romania and in other countries, said the group's Chief Executive more

4 iun 2014

In 2013, the largest part of builders operating in Romania saw their revenue and profit slide, as public investments slipped and private companies were wary of undertaking new projects. more

27 mai 2014

Bucharest-based building company Delta ACM 93, controlled by businessman Florea Diaconu, has set up a subsidiary in Austria, through which it wants to tap this country’s market. more

14 mai 2014

On Romania’s market of new construction machines, valued at EUR50 million, backhoe loaders bring half of sales. more

8 mai 2014

The value of transport infrastructure works (roads, railroads, airports, bridges or waterways) amounted to EUR27.5 billion in Romania between 2009 and 2013, according to a ZF analysis based on the more

6 mai 2014

Large Romanian-held building companies made more than 2,600 employees redundant last year, namely one quarter of total headcount, as both public and private investments in the field of constructions more

1 mai 2014

Austria’s group Strabag, which built two highway sections between Deva and Sibiu, predicts the Romanian constructions market will advance by 5.8% this year as both private and public investments are more