Austrian-owned Marzek Packaging on Thursday inaugurated a HUF 800 million high-capacity Heidelberg offset printer at its base in Bekescsaba (SE Hungary). Marzek Etiketten has invested more than HUF 2.5 billion at its Hungarian unit since acquiring the printing plant in Bekescsaba in 2005, said managing director István Zoltán Kasa. The company has...

Maritsa Highway, a consortium between Bulgarian company Patonstroitelna Tehnika and Austria's Porr Technobau und Umwelt, has won the tender for building the second section of the Maritsa motorway. The 34-kilometre stretch links the towns of Dimitrovgrad and Harmanly, in southern Bulgaria. The consortium offered the lowest price of BGN 122.137 million for the...

A grant of €578,000 awarded in 2009 from the Norwegian Fund covered the cost of expansion of an office block and the construction of a new 230 sqm education center at Budapest's center for young entrepreneurs (BIVAK) completed on Saturday. The Norwegian Fund's “Adult Education, Training and Business Development Incentive” tender aims to improve...

Gold Brikett is spending HUF 220 million to build a bio-briquette plant in Jászladány (E Hungary), the town's mayor, István Dankó, told MTI on Thursday. Grant money is covering one-half of the cost of the investment to be completed in September, said Dankó. The plant will turn out an annual 4,000 tons of bio-briquettes, enough...

Italian-owned FARMOL Hungary Kft has built a HUF 1 billion plant at the industrial park of Nyirbator (NE Hungary) to make and fill aerosol bottles, FARMOL Hungary CFO Janos Jobbagy told MTI. CFO Janos Jobbagy told MTI that trial production with 49 workers has started at the 6,300sqm factory. The number of employees will rise to 67 when full-scale operation begins...