Two of the projects have been completed, and many of those in progress are in advanced stages of completion.
The new production facilities are or will be making refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, washing machines and home appliances parts.
The state aid approved has gone or will go to the washing machine plant of Arctic in Ulmi, Dambovita, which has been operational for more than a year, to the refrigerator plant of China’s Haier, a major investment nearing completion, to the two vacuum cleaner manufacturing facilities of Kärcher in Romania – one completed, one about to, to a project of Romanian company Electroarges and to a project of home appliances components maker Jaeggi Industries.
The companies that got the state aid approved are mostly foreign groups, with the sole exception being Electroarges (ELGS.RO), a vacuum cleaner manufacturer listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)