News about Industry
While the world is buying up chips for artificial intelligence, Samsung Electronics is trying to avoid a crisis within the company. On Monday, management and the memory maker’s largest labor union will sit down at the bargaining table again, three days before a possible large-scale strike.
The European Commission is preparing to use revenues from carbon taxes levied on industry to subsidize farmers facing rising fertilizer prices.
The European Commission has approved four genetically modified crops for use in the food and animal feed industries. These are two genetically modified lines of cotton, one line each of corn and soybeans. The decision was published on March 12 in the Official Journal of the EU and will be valid for 10 years.
Romanian company Oves Enterprise has developed a low-cost cruise missile controlled by artificial intelligence. Its launch weight is only 55 kg (20 kg of propellant, 10 kg warhead), and its range is 200 km.
In the first quarter of 2026, exports of goods amounted to 848.5 million euros, up 10.2% compared to the corresponding period of 2025, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
The Romanian car ARO is being revived under the name e-ARO 25. The model defies imagination. It is an all-electric SUV, optionally with a range extender, designed to compete with the Hummer EV or G-Klasse EQ.
One of the largest and most developed chemical clusters in the world is on the verge of a large-scale crisis. Over the past year, two of the cluster’s ten companies have already closed plants. Europe’s chemical industry is under pressure due to high energy prices, weak demand and growing competition from China.
Kazakhstan fund “Samruk-Kazyna” took 22nd place in the list of 25 largest sovereign wealth funds in the world with assets of $88 billion.
Honda posted its first annual loss in 70 years amid problems in its electric vehicle segment and the impact of U.S. trade tariffs.
German automobile holding company Porsche SE recorded a net loss of 923 million euros for the first quarter of 2026.
Iulian Iorga was appointed director of the State Agency for Intellectual Property. The decision was approved by the Government on Wednesday, May 13. The position will be exercised from May 24, 2026.
Before getting a job in Moldova, labor migrants pass through the “filters” of the competent authorities – a security check. This statement was made by the vice-chair of the Parliamentary Commission for Economy, Budget and Finance, PAS deputy Victoria Belous.
About 35% of owners of mining licenses do not fulfill their obligations to reclaim land after mining activities. Some quarries remain abandoned for years – without rehabilitation and environmental control. In many cases, companies are in the process of bankruptcy, liquidation or have already ceased operations.
Copper prices rose above the key mark of $14 thousand per ton, approaching historical highs. The market continues to grow despite the increased nervousness on global platforms due to the aggravation around Iran.
Moldova expects to attract Polish investments in seven strategic sectors of the economy: from IT and agriculture to energy and automobile industry.
One of the largest aluminum producers in the world has taken an interest in the Nikolaev alumina refinery in Ukraine, which was nationalized from Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska.
In the period January-April 2026, Moldovan producers of apple concentrate processed a little more than 2 thousand tons of apples. Moreover, last month accounted for at least half of the volume of processing of this raw material, industry operators note.
Germany will exhaust its notional annual share of the planet’s natural resources as early as May 10.
The representatives of AGCO international group of companies discussed the agro-technological policy of the Republic of Moldova with MAIA Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Ludmila Catlabuga during their visit to Moldova.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned that the country is going through the biggest change in decades. He made the statement at a business forum in Düsseldorf against the backdrop of the economic downturn, the energy crisis and growing global instability.
