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life of 24 hours (using 650-type flour), the rest being packed
toast and sliced pan bread.
TWO BIG NATIONAL GROUPS
Marin put the total number of companies currently registered in the milling sector at 1,300. There are two large national
groups, Boromir group and 7 Spice (former VelPitar). "They
each have several processing units of more than 200 tonnes a
day processing capacity distributed in all regions of the country," he said. "Boromir is 100% owned by a very aggressive
Romanian group of young businessmen. Boromir has the main
durum wheat processing unit of the country, based in Sibiu. 7
Spice is owned by a foreign equity investment-type fund."
There are three other groups that each have two large flour
mills (units processing from 150 to 600 tonnes a day). The
Titan group (formerly Loulis) was recently acquired by the
Austrian-based group LLI, while the Abo Mill group is owned
by the ABO Hungarian group and Vital & Heyl group.
There are also about 14 single-unit milling companies -
one or two in almost every county of Romania - with 150 to
700 tonnes per day of capacity. All of them are fully Romanian

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owned. They are Dobrogea SA, Pambac SA, PangroupSA,
Galmopan SA, Spicul SA, Morarit Baneasa SA, Oltina Impex
Prod Com SRL, Farinsan SA, Interago SRL, Harmopan SA,
Mopan SA, Cerealcom SA Timis, Panimon SA and European
Food SA.
According to Marin, all the processing units in these first
three groups have full modern milling technology, most of
them from Buhler but also from Ocrim, Alapala and GBS.
The rest of the industry consists of others with daily capacities between 20 to 70 tonnes, of which more than 80%
have less than 40 tonnes of daily capacity. About 3% to 5%
are owned by small foreign entrepreneurs, with the rest being Romanian owned. "Most of them have re-engineered
Romanian technologies," said Marin. "A certain number are
intent to modernize their existing capacities, with (expansions) up to 60 to 70 tonnes a day, taking advantage of the
important E.U. rural development funds available from this
year until 2013."
OVERCAPACITY
The major problem faced by the Romanian milling industry is
overcapacity. The industry could, in theory, processes more than

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