DS Smith Paper Zarnesti made a net profit of RON92 million (EUR18.6 million) last year, 8.5 times higher than the RON10.8 million (EUR2.2 million) of 2021, according to public data. The company reached an average of 223 employees in 2022.
The DS Smith plant in Zarnesti makes only recycled paper. In addition to this plant, the manufacturer has two other packaging plants in Romania, in Ghimbav and Timisoara, as well as a recycling operations coordination center in Bucharest, two recycling warehouses in Otopeni and Cluj-Napoca and three offices in Pitesti, Timisoara and Otopeni, Ilfov County. The Zarnesti plant (formerly Ecopaper) is the largest of its kind in Romania, having been bought by DS Smith from entrepreneur Vladimir Cohn, along with the Ecopack plant in Ghimbav, a few years ago.
Most of the packaging manufactured by DS Smith in Romania is sold locally, although some of it is exported to countries such as Hungary, Poland and Italy. As previously stated by DS Smith’s previous data, the Zarnesti plant supplies packaging paper for almost half of the local market.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)