The total consumption of the Romanian ceramic tiles market amounted to some 40 million square meters in 2020, with the local market seeing an increase of 3%.
Over 20% of the total volumes sold locally in 2020 are produced in Romania, at the Sanex factory held by Lasselsberger Ceramics Romania.
Finance ministry data show that Sanex had a turnover of RON153 million, a loss of RON3.6 million and 433 employees in 2019.
The Sanex factory was acquired in 2004 by Austria’s Lasselsberger Group. In the last five years, the investments carried out at the Sanex factory in Cluj amounted to EUR25 million.
The company seeks to increase exports in the next five years, so that the production in Romania can reach on as many European markets as possible. Sanex exports to Bulgaria, Hungary, the Re¬public of Moldova, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and even Sweden, but exports account for just 5% of total sales.