“As anticipated, 2024 came with a decline in demand on the market, mostly due to the lack of EU-funded projects to buy new equipment,” said Razvan Marcu, managing director of Kuhn Romania.
The Austrian-held group took over the operations of the Romanian-held Marcom RMC’94 in 2022, one of the largest construction and industrial equipment distributors in Romania.
The company, a distributor of Komatsu and other brands, sells excavators, front loaders, bulldozers, dumpers and other machinery.
The earthmoving equipment market fluctuates quite a lot, as it is largely dependent on investments in infrastructure (highway, road, sewer and water supply system construction, electricity).
“For 2025, we estimate demand to be similar to 2024, with the single great unknown being the development of the geopolitical situation and the effects we will feel in Romania.”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)