Romania

Romanian gas transmission operator Transgaz awarded SUTECH a supply contract for a centrifugal compressor to expand the Jupa compression station in western Romania, for EUR 18,019,725.

Envipco signed an agreement with Ahold Delhaize to supply 600 reverse vending machines to Mega Image and Profi in Romania. Deliveries start in the last quarter of 2026 and are expected to finish by early 2028.

Mayr-Melnhof is advancing its packaging production expansion at a Romanian plant, which is on schedule. Commercial production is set to start in October 2026, and the project is part of its Food & Premium Packaging division.

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.

DS Smith, part of International Paper, will invest over €14 million in its Timișoara and Ghimbav packaging plants in Romania, including about €10.5 million in Timișoara by Q1 2027 for automation and a new converting line.

DS Smith will invest an additional €3.6 million in 2026 at its Ghimbav, Romania plant for infrastructure modernisation and corrugated board production equipment upgrades, building on a €13 million investment launched in 2023.

DS Smith is investing €10.5 million at its Timișoara, Romania plant by Q1 2027 for automation, production flow changes, warehouse expansion and a new conversion line. The investment is part of a wider €14 million Romanian program.

DS Smith partnered with the Romanian Serele SupeR agricultural cooperative to replace ten million plastic tomato packages with recyclable corrugated fibre punnets, following a three-year trial, reported on 14 January 2026.

Electrocentrale Bucuresti S.A. awarded a contract to F&C Total Grup, SITAN GRUP and ROM ENERGY ARMSTRONG for special steam regulating and injection valves for its VEST Combined Cycle plant near Bucharest, valued at about EUR 575,237.

Canpack has significantly increased the capacity of its beverage can plant in Romania by installing an upgrade to one of its two lines. The announcement is dated 4 December 2025.

Berlin Packaging has completed its acquisition of Sarom Packaging and Romgallia, Romania-based glass packaging suppliers, expanding its EMEA footprint and glass portfolio.

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.

Evopack has started an investment in two new production lines for food cardboard boxes and new storage space at its Piatra Neamț factory, estimated at EUR 1.8 million.

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.

Oil Dynamics GmbH signed two additional five-year contracts with Romania's largest oil and gas company to supply and service more than 180 electrical submersible pumps, with service run from a new Bucharest-area subsidiary.

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.

Belgian bottle maker Resilux plans to expand its Bucharest PET preforms factory by about 30% under a EUR 3 million investment, including a new rPET pellets production line, according to sources cited by Profit.ro.

Romanian beverage producer Alconor is installing SMI machinery, including rotary stretch-blow moulders for PET/rPET bottles, secondary and tertiary packaging plants and conveyor lines, at its Romanian plants.

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.

All4Labels Global Packaging Group signed an agreement to acquire Romprix Exim, a Romanian manufacturer of self-adhesive labels, making it a 100% subsidiary. The transaction is subject to closing conditions including regulatory approval, and terms were not disclosed. Both production sites are near Bucharest.

Alpla, Ecohelp and United Polymer Trading (UPT) formed a joint venture, PET Recycling Team Targu Mures, investing a combined EUR 7.5 million in a plant in Targu Mures, Romania. Production is scheduled to start around mid-2022.

ALPLA, Ecohelp SRL and United Polymer Trading form a joint venture to build a PET recycling plant in Targu Mures, Romania, producing 15,000 tonnes of food-grade rPET per year for about €7.5 million, creating 15 jobs.

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.

Romanian company Promateris completed a 2.5 million euro investment in a compostable packaging production line. The article text provides few further details.

BRAVO Europa SRL plans an investment program of over EUR 3 million to expand production and storage at its Fundulea, Romania facility, including a 30% larger production hall and a new 3,600 sqm storage hall. Staff is expected to grow 15% in 2021.