Environment

Masterplast, one of the biggest construction material industrial producer and distributor announced its five-year strategic plan, whereby it increases frontage thermo-insulation from its current 40 pct to 48 pct within its full product range.

Austria's TiSUN said it had completed the installation of 1,500 square meters of solar panels in a refurbishment of Hungary's biggest housing block.

The Greenergy group inaugurated a HUF 375 million biomass-fuelled co-generation power plant in Baja (S Hungary) on December 9.

The first phase of the Győr Macro-regional waste management major project completed and was handed over on December 7.

The assistance contract underpinning the urban rehabilitation of Kaposvár and Nyíregyháza has been signed.

The online edition of Forbes magazine has compiled a list of Europe's hidden treasures, suggesting that instead of the Eiffel Tower and the Vatican, 10 lesser-known destinations are worth visiting.

The Government has approved and submitted the funding request of a major project called "Implementation of Phase II of the Small Balaton Water Protection System (KBVR)" to the European Commission.

Lake Tisza eco-center, to be constructed in Poroszló, will be implemented under the New Hungary Development Plan with the help of funding amounting to over HUF 2.2 billion.

Mr Imre Szabó, Minister of Environment and Water laid the foundation stone of the investment to be implemented at the sewage treatment plant in Dunakeszi with the help of funding amounting to nearly HUF 1.1 billion.

Hungary's ELMIB plans to build a HUF 9 billion biomass-fueled power plant in Salgotarjan (NE Hungary), CEO Jozsef Kele announced on November 3.