“Although reserved, our expectations for 2014 are positive,” the company said in a press release.

The French group has four companies in Romania: Saint-Gobain Construction Products (with the divisions Rigips, Isover, PAM, and Weber), Saint-Gobain Glass Romania (with the divisions Glass and Abrazivi), MTI Impex, and Brodrene Dahl. It employs around 1,100 employees and 12 production lines on eight industrial sites.

Saint-Gobain operates in 64 countries, has over 190,000 employees worldwide and had sales of EUR42 billion last year.