Unitco

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  • Employees
    101-200
  • Creation date
    1995
  • Member since
    31/07/2008

Universal Trading T.S. Corp, known as Unitco, is a group involved directly and through its subsidiaries in the building materials and energy industries, while possessing a real estate investment arm and a port operation. Within the building materials industry, the group is vertically integrated in its core business, the timber industry. Its activities include harvesting of forests, production of sawn goods, production of energy from biomass resulting in its sawmills, shipping, trading, distributing and retailing of construction lumber, furniture wood and fiber based panels. In selected locations, billets, steel and other building materials are also part of its product mix. These activities are done under different entities, part of the group or sister companies, in Romania, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. Unitco has achieved FSC ® Certification in 2015 for both whitewood and beechwood production. Unitco has a strict policy of proper forest resource management and has constantly been promoting the felling of trees in the correct way to allow for healthy growth. The group plays its role in protecting the environment and its primary resource – the forest – by running a residual biomass based power plant. Unitco was the first and sole Arab representative in the European Organization of the Sawmill Industry (EOS)'s first International conference. The production of the group is sold globally, in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Gulf regions as well as Asia. Our imports come from North and South America, Europe and Africa as well as South East Asia. Situated in the Braila Free Zone, the group's port terminal is the leading private port of the Romanian part of the Danube river. It handles all kinds of building materials, logs, steel, grains and livestock.

News

    • 2016-12-20
    • Romanel announces that all three sawmills are now FSC ® certified

    • Romanel International Group S.A just announced that it has achieved FSC ® certification this month for its whitewood production in Vatra Dornei (Suceava, Romania) [More...]
    • 2015-06-26
    • Unitco and Romanel announce FSC certification

    • Unitco and Romanel International Group S.A have both achieved FSC ® certification during the first quarter of 2015, for both whitewood and beech production [More...]

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