Poles aim to get 30% of door market

Massive construction investments have given the related door market a boost in the last few years, attracting new players. Polish door market Porta KMI will finalise an 8 million euro investment in a door factory in Arad and expects to attain at least 30% of the domestic market in the first year in business. The production will go to both the domestic and the Balkan market. “We will export to Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, as well as to Ukraine and Moldova,” said Robert Ciepiela, the commercial representative of the Polish company in Romania. “We hope to attain 30% of the Romanian market in the first year of operations, that is 2005, ” Ciepiela says. The production capacity of the facility in Arad is about one million doors a year. The investment in the Arad-based factory began last November and will be completed this September, with production slated to commence in December. The factory will employ some 200 people. The parent company, Porta KMI Poland, was established in 1992 and is part of Polish Komfort Group. ZF