Construction works started this autumn and the total investment exceeds EUR10 million. The factory is expected to open in the first half of 2022.

Together with the first three similar factories, inaugurated in Alba Iulia, Ploiesti and Arad, respectively in 2017, 2020 and 2021, Petra Pavaje represents an investment of over EUR40 million. On operating at full capacity, the plant in Roman will produce 6,000 sqm per day and wil create 80 jobs.

The industrial platform Florea Grup Roman will have a total area of 80,000 sqm and will be solar-powered by a solar park with an annual capacity of 469 MW/h. It will also have an electric vehicle charging station and an exhibition garden.

Florea Grup holds the four-star Transilvania and three-star Astoria hotels in Alba Iulia, ten filling stations, an own fleet of truck mixers, concrete pumps, trucks and utility vans.

Privately-owned Romanian company Florea Grup was established in 1996 by brothers Marcel and David Florea. It reported a turnover of RON137 million in 2020, up 22% from 2019.