“We are operating at capacity and sold comparably as much as last year. We have 200 employees, about as many in the previous years. So far, we have been 100% operational and taking all the steps required by the law lately,” says Adrian Minzat, general manager of Brikston. He took the position on April 1, 2019, replacing Iulian Mangalagiu.
Brikston posted more than RON100 million (over EUR20 million) revenue in 2019, 6% higher than in 2018.
“I think the most important thing for the entire economy and society is to keep our mental and physical health, to look for new ways of doing things, make the effort to adjust to what is happening and will happen, reinvent ourselves and be all aware that we need to keep going. At home and at work,” Adrian Minzat says.
Austria’s Leier acquired Brikston in 2018, which at the end of 2019 announced it also bought Siceram, another brick manufacturer in Romania. Leier now has three plants in Romania in Iasi (Brikston), Sighisoara (Siceram) and in Unirea, Alba County, where it built a plant. It also has another facility under construction in Arad, which will be making pavers.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)