REI Grup, through REI INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING S.R.L., has commenced construction on a kraft paper bag manufacturing plant in Călan, Hunedoara County, Romania. The total investment exceeds €2.5 million, with 61.98% non-reimbursable financing. Completion is scheduled for the first half of 2027.

A recycled-fibre kraft paper mill under construction in Giurgiu, Romania, is about 60% built and due to start in 2028, at an estimated cost of EUR 80-90 million (USD 89-101 million). Planned capacity is 120,000-130,000 tonnes a year of kraft paper from recovered paper.

VPK Group is investing €4m in a brand-new manufacturing facility of nearly 6,000 sqm in Salonta, Bihor County, Romania, to produce corrugated packaging, cardboard tubes, cores and edge protectors for VPK Packaging Romania and Corex Romania.

VAT Romania officially inaugurated a new 21,000 m² production facility in VGP Park Arad, Romania, which becomes the group's third main manufacturing hub; about 50 of its 380 employees are working there so far.

Crescento Packaging, a maker of disposable cups, plates and cardboard boxes for the HORECA sector, has invested over €7.6 million in a new 4,000 sq m factory in the Miroslava Industrial Park near Iași, which was inaugurated in 2023.

German compressor maker BAUER opened its new compressor factory in Ghimbav, Brasov County, Romania, which started production in February 2023 and has 150 employees. The 2022-2032 investment plan exceeds 50 million euros and the plant will reach 28,000 compressors per year.

ALPLA, Ecohelp SRL and United Polymer Trading opened a joint PET recycling plant in Targu Mures, Romania, with about 18,000 tonnes annual capacity of food-grade rPET, after an investment of about EUR 7.5 million.

ALPLA, Ecohelp SRL and United Polymer Trading AG are each investing equally in a joint venture to install an extrusion line recycling post-consumer PET bottles in Targu Mures, Romania, aiming for 15,000 tonnes of rPET per year. The total investment is about EUR 7.5 million and will create 15 jobs.

Segezha Group is building a paper packaging facility in Ploiesti, Romania, part of a EUR 10 million investment, adding up to 65% capacity, to about 160 million paper sacks a year, with commissioning planned for March 2022.

Dunapack Rambox is building a 45 million euro packaging plant on an 11.5ha site in Bolintin-Deal, Giurgiu County, Romania, with 180 million square metres annual capacity and 150 jobs. Construction began in October 2018 and operations are expected to start in June 2019.

Austrian-owned Dunapack Rambox, part of Prinzhorn Group, is building a new corrugated cardboard packaging plant in Bolintin-Deal near Bucharest, Romania, under a project worth about €45 million. The plant is planned to employ around 200 workers and reach 180 million square metres of annual capacity.

Dunapack Rambox, a subsidiary of Austria's Prinzhorn group, will start construction of a new 22,000 sqm corrugated cardboard plant in Bolintin, west of Bucharest, on land bought in late 2017. Projected annual output is 180 million sqm.

Pfeiffer Vacuum Romania, a subsidiary of Germany's Pfeiffer Vacuum, completed a 13 million euro investment in a 4,500 sq m industrial pump production and repair plant in the Nervia park in Apahida, Cluj, adding 26 jobs.

Dunapack Rambox, a subsidiary of Austria's Prinzhorn group, signed an agreement for an 11.5-hectare plot to build a 22,000 sqm corrugated packaging plant in Bolintin near Bucharest. The plant will create 200 jobs and, with the Sfantu Gheorghe factory, reach 300 million sqm of annual capacity; investment was not disclosed.

Romcarton S.A. is building a new corrugated cardboard packaging factory in Popesti-Leordeni, Ilfov County, near Bucharest, with a total investment of EUR 27.5 million, financed partly by a EUR 23.4 million BCR credit, with completion expected by end of 2017.