Jaroslaw Turczynski, the company’s CEO, says he does not have any new investments planned for 2024, with the focus to be on boosting efficiency.
2023 was a “quite challenging” year for the roofing market, he adds, and at yearend the company’s turnover revolved around EUR110 million, down 16% from 2022. At the same time, profit went down amid the completion of a RON12.4 million investment in a new production hall, retooling and in the company’s Baia Mare headquarters.
For 2024, the company desires stability and predictability. Last year, the biggest challenge was related to the price of steel, a major raw material for the company’s activity.
Blachotrapez entered the local market in 2010 and has developed two plants, in Baia Mare and Ploiesti, with an annual production capacity of almost seven million square meters.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)