Arcon: We can manufacture polystyrene for 5,500 blocks of flats

Sfantu Gheorghe-based building materials producer Arcon, owned by businessman Ioan Titeiu, states that should the expanded polystyrene plant produce for all the rehabilitation projects initiated by the Regional Development and Tourism Ministry, just 30% of the capacity would be covered. “If we produced the necessary polystyrene for all the thermal rehabilitation projects announced countrywide, just 30% of the capacity of Sfantu Gheorghe line would be used. We can manufacture polystyrene for 5,500 blocks of flats, in the context where authorities announced around 1,800 buildings would be thermally insulated this year,” states Ioan Titeiu, Arcon general manager. The company thus joins other producers on this market that state the funds earmarked for the thermal rehabilitation programme are too low to spur consumption of thermo-insulating building materials. The company last year generated turnover worth 86m RON (20.3m euros), down 11% as a result of the falling sales prices and weakening demand for bituminous membranes.