Saint-Gobain invests 4 million Euro in the glass plant in Calarasi

Saint-Gobain Glass production facility at Calarasi will see a 4 million Euro worth investment this year, out of which 2 million will be invested in environment-protection technologies, according to Constantin Hariton, delegate deputy general manager of Saint-Gobain Romania.

2016-03-01 12:51:25

In 2015, Saint-Gobain is celebrating its 350th anniversary, 350 reasons to believe in the future. Backed by its experience and its capacity to continuously innovate, Saint-Gobain, the world leader in the habitat and construction market, designs, manufactures and distributes high-performance and building materials providing innovative solutions to the challenges of growth, energy efficiency and environmental protection. With 2014 sales of €41 billion, Saint-Gobain operates in 66 countries and more than 180,000 employees.

In Romania, Saint-Gobain has eight activities (Abrasives, Brodrene Dahl, Glass, Isover, MTI Impex, PAM, Rigips and Weber), with approximately 1,100 employees and operates 12 production facilities in eight industrial sites located in Brasov, Branesti, Calarasi, Ploiesti, Satu-Mare, Tulcea, Turda and Suceava. At Calarasi, the company runs three facilities, respectively a fiber glass production line with 750 tons per day production capacity, a special glass coating production line with 10 million sqm production capacity per year and a laminated glass line, with 2 million sqm production capacity per year.

In the last quarter of 2015, Saint-Gobain invested 1.65 million Euro in a new production line for assembling construction materials for the Rigips plant at Turda, a project co-financed with EU funds .