“We are about to complete the expansion of the manufacturing facilities, so we will increase the number of employees by 20% to 25% over the next few years, unless, of course, significant changes occur on the market,” Dan Brumboiu, general manager of Polipol Mobila, told ZF.
The Foieni plant is currently employing 730 people. It processed 4,300 cubic meters of lumber from Romania and Germany last year, making about 55,000 sets of upholstered furniture worth more than 124 million lei (EUR27 million). Polipol Mobila’s entire production goes to Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Switzerland, the company officials say.
Polipol ended last year with RON143 million (about EUR32 million) revenue, up 27% on 2015, ZF has calculated based on publicly available data and the information the company supplied. Polipol Mobila is aiming for more than EUR33 million sales in 2017.
“The sales growth is mainly because of the growth of the upholstered furniture market in Germany, the country we supply most of our production to, as well as the diversification of the range of products we make. The year 2016 was a very good year, a year of development because of the start of the project to expand the plant in Foieni, the diversification of the range of models we make and the rise in production volume. This year we plan to make more than RON150 million revenue.” (EUR1=RON4.5286)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)