In 2023, Kastamonu Romania had a turnover of RON656.7 million (EUR132.8 million), a net loss of RON119.7 million (EUR24.2 million) and an average number of 832 employees, as per data on the finance ministry website.
At end-2024, the company had some 835 employees, compared with 800 people at end of 2023.
Exports generate more than 50% of the company’s turnover, including the Reghin product range, but also complementary items produced at the group’s Kastamonu factories, with destinations on all continents, according to information previously provided by company officials. Kastamonu supplies the products made at Reghin to countries such as Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Poland, Türkiye, Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, Czechia, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Algeria, Morocco, Guatemala, Egypt and France, previous data also show.
Kastamonu Romania is part of Hayat Holding, Türkiye’s largest player in the wood industry, which entered the local market in 1998 by acquiring 98% of the share capital of Prolemn Reghin, which took the name of its shareholder, Kastamonu, in April 2012.
The largest foreign investors in the field of wood processing are the companies HS Timber Group, the former Holzindustrie Schweighofer, Egger and Kronospan, in line with data published on the finance ministry website.
At end-2024, the company had some 835 employees, compared with 800 people at end of 2023.
At end-2024, the company had some 835 employees, compared with 800 people at end of 2023.