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Brașov City Hall to purchase 80 new electric vehicle charging stations
Local authorities in the mountain city of Brașov have launched the procurement process for the installation of 80 electric vehicle charging stations, a project backed by non-reimbursable funds from the Environmental Fund Administration. The project is worth RON 4.7 million. Brașov liberal mayor George Scripcaru noted that the city pioneered the public transport system’s transition…
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Romanians with hearing impairments to test innovative bracelet at cinema in Cluj-Napoca
People with hearing impairments will be able to test the innovative Rhythm Touch, which transforms sound into vibrations perceived on the skin, at the Florin Piersic Cinema Theatre in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in February. Rhythm Touch is one of the startups supported by Transilvania IT Cluster from its early stages. Before it became a startup, it…
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Food waste prevention: Munch and Bonapp merge, eye further expansion in 2025
Food waste prevention app Bonapp, which is active in Romania, and Hungarian-born Munch, which is also present in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, announced they are merging to consolidate and expand their activity in preventing food waste. Together, the two scale-ups plan to expand to Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Serbia, and Slovenia. The new entity totals…
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Cushman & Wakefield Echinox: Stock of industrial & logistics spaces reaches 7.6 million sq.m in 2024
Developers in Romania completed new projects with a leasable area of 572,000 sq. m in 2024, reflecting a 27% growth when compared with 2023, while the total industrial & logistics stock in Romania reached almost 7.6 million sq. m at the end of Q4, according to a Cushman & Wakefield Echinox analysis. The development activity…
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Romanians show modest support for boycott against retailers
Without a clear focus and highly politicised, the boycott announced by the ultranationalist presidential candidate Calin Georgescu against the foreign modern retailers, allegedly discriminating against local producers, failed to make a major impact in Romania. Launched in Croatia against the high prices, the boycott spread across the region having various forms and degrees of political…
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Buildings in Romania to be illuminated in red to mark 112 Emergency Number Day
Over 100 public institutions and private company buildings across Romania will be illuminated in red on Tuesday, February 11, to mark European 112 Emergency Number Day. The initiative belongs to the Special Telecommunications Service (STS), which invited other institutions to illuminate their buildings in red. “On Tuesday, more than 100 buildings—including government offices, financial and…
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Output of Romania’s Hidroelectrica’s down 21% y/y in 2024
State-controlled hydropower group Hidroelectrica (BVB: H2O) announced that its net electricity production dropped by 21% y/y to 13,864 GWh in 2024, according to the company’s preliminary operational report. The amount of total electricity sold decreased by 24% to 14,665 GWh. The dynamics reflects marginal improvement from the 22% y/y decline seen in the first nine…
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United Petfood invests EUR 35 mln in its second Romanian plant
The Belgian group United Petfood, one of the largest pet food producers in the world with factories in multiple European countries as well as in the USA, is investing EUR 35 million in a production unit in Romania located in the town of Răcari, Dâmboviţa County, according to Ziarul Financiar. For the group, which has…
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Bawi – Swietelski wins EUR 100 million contract to develop railway infrastructure of Constanta port
The Romanian railway infrastructure company CFR Infrastructură reportedly close to signing the contract, estimated at almost EUR 100 million, with the Bawi – Swieteski association for the modernization of the railway network in the port of Constanta, according to Economedia. The Austrian company Porr, also bidding for the contract, appealed the award but its objection…
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German car parts producer TMD Friction increases production operations in Romania
German braking technology developer TMD Friction, which owns the Textar brake pad brand, is preparing to move part of its Leverkusen (Germany) facility to Romania, in response to “evolving market conditions,” according to Profit.ro. The company already has in Romania a factory in Caransebeș and a service center in Timișoara. At the same time, the…