The Minister of Economy, Digitalization, Entrepreneurship and Tourism, Bogdan Ivan, said on Friday that Romania will have in a maximum of two and a half years one of the largest powders for explosives in all over Europe.
The location for the largest powder factory in Europe was approved: Profimedia
Romania will have the most modern powder factory for ammunition, to which the European Union will be a partner. In this way, Romania returns to the market of explosive powders for ammunition.
“In total, in Romania there are 143 companies that are authorized to provide materials and equipment for the defense industry. I also have a discussion with them. It is a general effort to get as many of the money that today the European Commission puts on the table, namely 150 billion euros through the SAFE mechanism (Security for Europe), which is an integrated part of 800 billion. As, in order to access this money in the field of military technique, it is very important to have a European partner, another European country. Government and with other structures, precisely to identify what is the need for Romania and how much we can cover from the need for Romania. We have identified where we can be suppliers for other EU states and we started mapping their needs and automatically where we can find partnerships. For example, we provide ammunition of a certain caliber and that country has very competitive production capacities on another ammunition, on a certain type of caliber and to work in a complementary form. To this very much military the European Safe mechanism, on the one hand“, Bogdan Ivan told the show” Live “, from Digi24. The last year, the Government was committed to pay 72 million lei compensation to the owners to be expropriated.
The Government official states that the estimated duration for the operationalization of the powder factory is two and a half years.
“The purchase for the construction of the halls in which this powder will occur. Also, in parallel, we started the steps, for the purchase of the installations that will be mounted within the factory, so that we do not waste time. The estimated duration is two and a half years maximum, and we estimate that By the end of this year Let's have the public procurement procedures closed and maybe even start preparing the constructions. We have removed absolutely all the obstacles we had legally to ensure that this strategic project for Europe and Romania goes forward ”said the Minister of Economy.
Ivan states that Romania imports powder for explosive from Serbia and China, with 2 years delivery time, “CThat's what is extremely much. “
