24 feb 2014

Construction materials producer Siceram Sighisoara posted some 60.3 million lei (EUR13.3 million) revenue in 2013, up about 3% on the previous year. more

20 feb 2014

Timisoara-based lighting fixtures and systems manufacturer Elba, which supplies lights to Dacia-Renault and Volkswagen, expects exports to generate a higher share of its business this year, after more

23 ian 2014

Deutsche Bank--which is developing a technology center for Eastern Europe in Bucharest that will employ 500--got a EUR15 million aid from the Romanian government in December to support a EUR40 million more

14 ian 2014

The construction materials market, which accounts for about one third of the construction sector, stood at some EUR3.2 billion last year, about the same as in 2012. more

12 ian 2014

Romstrade, the building company controlled by businessman Nelu Iordache which entered insolvency proceedings more than a year ago, has sued Romania’s road authority CNADNR and Bucharest City Hall more

9 ian 2014

The main problems BASF identified in Romania last year were the low amount of cash available and the increasingly low number of new projects, says Luminita Teodorescu, the executive who runs the more

7 ian 2014

The Romanian company in charge of roads and highways (CNADNR) plans to start in 2014 the building works for almost 400 km of new highways, with costs estimated at some EUR5.8 billion, according to a more

28 dec 2013

The year 2013 witnessed insolvencies, several deals and the opening of new construction materials plants and malls. more

24 dec 2013

French-held Apa Nova will increase tariffs for drinking water and sewerage services by nearly 5% starting January, 2014, the equivalent of 0.28 lei (EUR0.06) per cubic meter, which means one cubic more

18 dec 2013

Bucharest-based builder Delta ACM 93 of businessman Florea Diaconu has won two public housing contracts worth EUR70 million together to build 2,750 homes in Tebessa and El Bayadh, Algeria. more

18 dec 2013

The year 2013 saw the termination of a contract considered disadvantageous for Romania (the construction of the Transylvania Highway by the US-based Bechtel), as well as the failure to privatize rail more

12 dec 2013

Autumn did not come with the expected thawing of the Romanian cement market, so after the 2011 rise and the 2012 stagnation Romanian cement production will decline again this year, writes Business more

11 dec 2013

Besides the bitter taste, which many companies in the construction business felt this year, 2013 will go down in history as the year of a number of major projects delivered on the local market, which more

10 dec 2013

Laurentiu Lupusor, general manager of construction materials producer Baumit Romania, says the reduction of public investments in 2013 affected the construction industry, but also brought more

9 dec 2013

The construction equipment market has this year fallen to 20% of what it used to be during 2007-2008, according to Business Construct magazine. more

5 dec 2013

Romania will inaugurate this month 98 km of highway in the western half of Romania, a project with a total cost of EUR530 million or around EUR5.4 million per km on average. more

4 dec 2013

The Government wants to postpone the construction of the Pitesti-Sibiu highway, the most important infrastructure project for the local industry and exports, by almost ten years choosing to build a more

4 dec 2013

The construction sector estimated at EUR9 billion to EUR10 billion a year employs 350,000 people or 8% of the total employees in Romania but is unable to find a balance after the reduction of public more

20 nov 2013

The 116 kilometer-long Pitesti-Sibiu highway expected to cost EUR3 billion is no longer a priority for Romania’s company in charge of highways and national roads CNADNR and stands little chance of more

19 nov 2013

Ziarul Financiar officially opened the trading session of the Bucharest Stock Exchange on Tuesday, November 18, 15 years from the launch of the newspaper’s first issue. The event brought together more

19 nov 2013

Construction companies have to ”reset” the construction market and take the present as a reference point, not the 2007-2008 period, when there was an almost “surreal euphoria,” believes Liviu more

15 nov 2013

Cement price dropped 3.2% in 2008-2013 and producers are now selling it for 430 lei (EUR96) per ton on average, according to a ZF analysis based on market and National Statistics Institute data. more

13 nov 2013

Cement producer Holcim Romania, the local subsidiary of Swiss group Holcim, will return to profit this year after last year it posted losses for the first time in more than a decade, of around EUR8.5 more

8 nov 2013

The Romanian cement market, shared by three major players, French Lafarge, German HeidelbergCement and Swiss Holcim, is the least competitive economic sector, according to a Competition Council more

4 nov 2013

The lack of new investment in industrial projects could not be offset by small residential projects, which use small roofing of wall profiles, therefore companies in the metal profile sector do not more