The dry mortar plant will employ 10 people, Sika Romania general manager Ileana Nicolae said in a press release Thursday.
The project is financed with the company’s own resources. The plant will have an annual production capacity of about 50,000 tons of dry mortar, which will be marketed in Romania as well as in the Republic of Moldova, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Hungary.
Sika opened its first local plant in 2008. It is located in Brasov (central Romania) and produces additives.
The company is present in 80 countries and employs some 15,200 people. It registered sales of CHF4.89 billion in 2011. Its Romanian subsidiary was set up in 2002.