{"id":10709,"date":"2026-06-19T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10709"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:00:27","slug":"same-five-bidders-enter-second-round-for-romanias-liberty-galati-steel-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10709","title":{"rendered":"Same five bidders enter second round for Romania\u2019s Liberty Gala\u021bi steel mill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five companies have registered for the June 19 auction for the Liberty Gala\u021bi steel plant, formerly Sidex, with the list of bidders unchanged from the first round held three months ago, according to News.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The starting price has been reduced to EUR 444 million from EUR 709 million, while the deadline for the sale process has been extended by three months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was interest from the same parties that subscribed to the first auction, who bought the specifications,\u201d Paul Dieter C\u00eerl\u0103naru, chief executive officer of CITR, one of Liberty Gala\u021bi\u2019s administrators, told News.ro.<\/p>\n

According to C\u00eerl\u0103naru, companies that had already purchased the tender documents were not required to do so again.<\/p>\n

\u201cApart from the price, nothing has changed in the specifications. We have communicated with all the parties who bought it the first time and who have continued to be interested in this industrial facility. No one else came; there are the same five,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Representatives of the plant\u2019s administration said the registered investors are UMB Steel, part of the Umbr\u0103rescu family-owned group active in infrastructure, metals, and energy; Metinvest BV, the steel and mining group controlled by Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov; Jindal Steel (International), which acquired the Ostrava steelworks in the Czech Republic in 2025; Greek steelmaker Sidenor Steel Industry; and Indian producer JSW Steel.<\/p>\n

On April 8, Romania\u2019s Competition Council approved UMB Steel\u2019s acquisition of the ArcelorMittal Hunedoara steel plant.<\/p>\n

Liberty Gala\u021bi is one of Romania\u2019s largest industrial assets and the country\u2019s biggest integrated steel producer.<\/p>\n

(Photo: press release)<\/em><\/p>\n

iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five companies have registered for the June 19 auction for the Liberty Gala\u021bi steel plant, formerly Sidex, with the list of bidders unchanged from the first round held three months ago, according to News.ro. The starting price has been reduced to EUR 444 million from EUR 709 million, while the deadline for the sale process […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}