1 mai 2014

Policolor, one of the largest players on the Romanian paint and varnish market, expects the industry to stabilize this year, though it may slightly contract. more

30 apr 2014

Brand has become a solid argument in end consumers’ buying decisions in the building materials industry as well. more

23 apr 2014

The building material market stayed around EUR3.2 billion last year, approximately the same as in 2012. The industry employs 36,000 people and accounts for about one third of the overall construction more

23 apr 2014

Bacau-based builder PA&CO International, controlled by businessman Costel Casuneanu and his wife Paulina, in 2013 posted revenue of around 121 million lei (EUR27.4 million), down 47% on the year. more

17 apr 2014

Bucharest-based builder Straco Grup, controlled by brothers Alexandru and Traian Horpos, ended 2013 with revenue of 616.5 million lei (EUR140 million), down 29% from 2012. more

16 apr 2014

Spedition UMB, one of Romania’s largest builders, controlled by businessman Dorinel Umbrarescu, reported revenue of 469.6 million lei (EUR106.2 million) in 2013, down nearly 24% on the year. more

15 apr 2014

Cement giants Holcim (Switzerland) and Lafarge (France), which have recently announced they would tie up, generated together revenue of EUR4.3 billion and net profits of over EUR930 million in the more

10 apr 2014

Romania’s national company in charge of highways and national roads CNADNR plans to award contracts for the construction of 375 kilometers of highways worth EUR3.8 billion this year, ZF has more

9 apr 2014

The Ponta government promises a network of 2,440 km of highways by 2020, meaning 1,800 km overall or over 250 km per year would be added to the current network, considering that the roads authority more

8 apr 2014

The merger between Lafarge (France) and Holcim (Switzerland), set to create a new leader on the world’s cement market, with total sales of EUR30 billion, will also involve plant sales. more

7 apr 2014

Romania absorbed around EUR1.4 billion (32% of the total) from the EUR4.3 billion the European Union made available for its transport infrastructure during the 2007-2013 period. more

3 apr 2014

Hidroconstructia, one of Romania’s biggest builders, in 2013 sealed contracts worth around 250 million US dollars abroad, in Belgium, Germany, Iraq, the Republic of Moldova and Serbia. more

2 apr 2014

Romania’s 20 priority investments for this year have a total budget of around EUR1.1 billion, but only four of these refer to new projects set to receive around EUR160 million in 2014. more

1 apr 2014

As the number of new apartment building insulation projects subsidized by public authorities was low in 2013, the only things that kept window and door profile makers going were individual renovation more

1 apr 2014

Window and door system producer Casa Noastra, which sells the QFORT brand, plans to invest around EUR30 million in the next 3-4 years to enhance the production capacity of the plant it owns near more

25 mar 2014

The cash shortage and limitations of the public investments are the main challenges the Romanian constructions industry is facing, according to Ileana Nicolae, the executive who has run the domestic more

21 mar 2014

The construction sector, a EUR8 billion to EUR9 billion business a year, which should have helped Romania’s economy grow during the crisis, contributed a mere 7.9% to the gross domestic product last more

17 mar 2014

The Romanian industry will get a double blow on April 1 with the introduction of the additional EUR0.07 excise duty per liter of fuel devised by Ponta Government to boost budget revenue and the rise more

14 mar 2014

Hidroconstructia, one of Romania’s biggest builders, is seeking contracts abroad and has submitted bids for the construction of a hydro-power station and an irrigation project in Kurdistan region of more

12 mar 2014

Romania used less than one third of the EUR4.4 billion EU funds made available via the EU-funded SOP-T (Sectoral Operational Program - Transport) program for the 2007-2013 program. Another EUR3 more

11 mar 2014

The biggest 20 infrastructure contracts signed by CNADNR in 2009-2013 amount to about EUR1.9 billion, ZF has calculated based on the data provided by the company over the years and electronic public more

11 mar 2014

Austrian-held Strabag group, which built several highway sections between Deva and Sibiu, as well as the tallest office building of Bucharest, Sky Tower, ended 2013 with revenue of EUR322 million in more

28 feb 2014

Two major cities of western Romania, Timisoara and Arad, will be connected to Western Europe via highway for the first time once the 39-kilometer Nadlac-Arad section is completed in December, when more

27 feb 2014

Last year brought a new decline on the Romanian cement market, which ZF values at some 600-700 million euros, as the state’s infrastructure investment slid and private investors shied away from new more

25 feb 2014

Infrastructure works witnessed a new decline of almost 2% last year, as the government cut investments and EU funds for roads and railways were frozen in the first half. Furthermore, it is not yet more