Romania’s National Mineral Water Company SNAM wants to build between two and four mineral water bottling plants, with EUR 20 million investments. The state-controlled company awaits the Economy Ministry’s approval to start the project.

SNAM will finance the project through a bank loan, reports local Mediafax. The company currently holds licenses only for water exploration and exploitation, but has no bottling capacities.

Five years ago, the Competition Council issued a document which provided that companies that extract mineral water can’t also bottle it. The document, however, doesn’t apply anymore.

The necessary investment for a plant with a capacity of 50,000 bottles per day amounts to EUR 8-10 million.

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