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Saint-Gobain ISOVER announces the restart of the glass wool production line at the Ploiesti factory in Romania.

29/11/2017
  • Corporate
Romania
ISOVER in Romania announces the reopening of the glass wool production line at the factory in Ploiesti. The line is expected to restart in July 2018, after undergoing a complete furnace rebuild and several other technological upgrades. 50 new direct jobs will be created in production, logistics and administrative departments, and many more indirect jobs in related services. 
«The production line allows ISOVER to adapt its glass wool production capacity to the market demand in the region, given that Romanian market is the largest of the South-East European region. Our decision was generated by the positive trend registered by the construction market in the past year, a trend that is expected to continue over the next years as well», stated Ovidiu Pascutiu, General Manager for Saint-Gobain Rigips and ISOVER Romania. 
ISOVER also announces its commitment to modernize the stone wool production line in Ploiesti during 2018. The upgrade is aimed at enlarging its stone wool production capacity by 30 000 tones starting from 2019. 
ISOVER plant in Ploiesti will be one of the few mineral wool factories in the world to produce both glass wool and stone wool, allowing Saint-Gobain to expand and harmonize the product range in the South-East European region, supplying beside Romania other regional countries such as Moldova, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania. 
ISOVER strengthens its commitment to the Romanian and regional markets by this investments, after considerable investments it has realized in Romania over the last 12 years. ISOVER Romania is forecasting to reach a total of 170 employees in the Production, Commercial, Logistics, Finance and HR departments.
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