Environment

Recycling

Poppe and Potthoff start filling Audi order

German auto parts maker Poppe and Potthoff has started making common- rail injection system tubes at its unit in Hungary...

Initiatives

Poultry plant closes temporarily in Békéscsaba

Some 800 workers of the Békéscsaba poultry processing plant in southeast Hungary were sent home on forced vacation due to...

Initiatives

M6 motorway to be refinanced from EIB loan

Representatives of the Hungarian government and M6 Duna Motorway Concession Rt, the company building a stretch of the M6 motorway,...

Recycling

Paks power plant union stops strike, continues negotiations

A union at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant has stopped a strike started on Monday, but will continue negotiations under...

Recycling

Aegon to set up mortgage unit in Hungary

Aegon NV, the second-largest Dutch insurer, will set up a mortgage banking unit in Hungary, daily Népszabadság reported....

Recycling

US-Hungarian joint venture to build Ft 18 bln bioethanol plant

US investment company CSLM Holding and Hungary's Bio-Tech-Energy announced on Wednesday plans to build a Ft 18 billion (€67.4 million)...

Initiatives

EvoBus sales increase 53% in 2005

DaimlerChrysler's exclusive dealer for buses in Hungary EvoBus Hungária Kft sold 53% more buses in 2005 than a year earlier,...

Recycling

Vegyépszer expects rising revenue, falling profits in 2006

Hungarian construction company Vegyépszer expects increasing revenue in 2006, but falling profits, because of higher energy prices, CEO Gyula Tímár...

Initiatives

No sources for bird flu compensations to poultry sector

A month after a cabinet approval on Ft 3.5 billion (€14 million) of funding to gauge the effects of the...

Recycling

Schmitz builds Hungarian plant

Schmitz Cargobull AG, a German manufacturer of truck trailers, chose Hungary to build its 10th factory next year, business daily...

Recycling

Schaeffler to spend €76 mln expanding Hungarian production

Schaeffler KG, a German auto parts maker, will spend €76 million (Ft 19.7 billion) expanding production at its Hungarian units...

Initiatives

Investors buy Ft 6.2 bln of HVB Triatlon 3 fund

Investors subscribed Ft 6.2 billion worth of units in HVB Bank Rt and asset manager CA IB Alapkezelő's Triatlon 3...

Recycling

Property developer pays Ft 600 mln for factory in Sopron

Property developer Medical Holding has purchased garment company Soproni Ruhagyár Rt for Ft 600 million, and will turn the factory...

Initiatives

Hungary applies for bird flu funds from World Bank

Hungary has applied for part of a $500 million fund the World Bank created to support efforts to halt the...

Recycling

UPC Hungary revenue increases 30% in 2005

Cable TV, telephony and broadband internet company UPC Hungary Rt had revenue of $281.7 million (roughly Ft 61 billion) in...

Pollution

Dongwha Plant’s Environmental Permit Revoked in Hungary

The environmental permit for South Korea’s Dongwha electrolyte manufacturing and NMP recycling plant in Sóskút has been revoked following an...

Environment

Hungary Introduces Water Restrictions in 629 Settlements

In response to the extreme heat and drought in Hungary, first-degree water restrictions have been introduced in 465 settlements, according...

Recycling

Alteo Starts Trial Run at New DRS Waste Processing Plant

Alteo Group will significantly increase its processing capacity for returned beverage packaging from this summer, with the launch of trial...

Environment, Business, Initiatives

BCSDH Breakfast Links Sustainability Award to Promoting Scalable Business Change

The Business Council for Sustainable Development in Hungary used its Sustainable Future Inspiration Breakfast on May 6 to shift the...

Environment

Meet the Hungarian Professor Working to Restore the Danube

Research professor Tibor Erős talks to the BBJ about his career as a biologist and ecologist, detailing his passion for...

Environment

Questions Arise About Toxic Exposure at Samsung Göd, Company Denies Media Reports

In 2023, Hungary’s government secretly ordered the Constitution Protection Office, the National Information Center, and intelligence agencies to investigate the...

Pollution

Air Quality Deteriorating in Several Parts of Hungary

A high concentration of airborne dust particles is further deteriorating air quality in several parts of Hungary, the National Public...

Initiatives

Gov’t Calls Tender to Support Creation of Wetland Habitats

The gov't is calling a HUF 12.8 billion tender to support the development of natural wetland habitats, contributing to long-term...

Dongwha Plant’s Environmental Permit Revoked in Hungary

The environmental permit for South Korea’s Dongwha electrolyte manufacturing and NMP recycling plant in Sóskút has been revoked following an...

CATL Hungary Fined HUF 10 mln Over Environmental Permit Violations

The Debrecen plant of Chinese battery maker CATL violated several provisions of its environmental use permit and was fined HUF...

Hungary Introduces Water Restrictions in 629 Settlements

In response to the extreme heat and drought in Hungary, first-degree water restrictions have been introduced in 465 settlements, according...

Hungary Reviews Battery Plants’ Emissions, Water Use and Waste Management

A nationwide inspection program covering the full operating chain of Hungary’s battery industry began Aug. 1, Minister of the Living...

Alteo Starts Trial Run at New DRS Waste Processing Plant

Alteo Group will significantly increase its processing capacity for returned beverage packaging from this summer, with the launch of trial...

Budapest Water Supply ‘Stable’ Amid Heatwave

The water supply of Budapest is "stable", the city is in a position to help out settlements around the capital...

Budapest Proposes Tiered Water‑fee System to Cut Waste

Budapest is calling for a reform of Hungary’s water-pricing system, proposing free basic household consumption and progressively higher rates for...

Hungarian Environmental Protection Authority Initiates Proceedings Against CATL

The environmental protection authority has initiated proceedings against Chinese-owned CATL as the company illegally discharged green-colored liquid from a sewer...

BCSDH Breakfast Links Sustainability Award to Promoting Scalable Business Change

The Business Council for Sustainable Development in Hungary used its Sustainable Future Inspiration Breakfast on May 6 to shift the...

Meet the Hungarian Professor Working to Restore the Danube

Research professor Tibor Erős talks to the BBJ about his career as a biologist and ecologist, detailing his passion for...

Questions Arise About Toxic Exposure at Samsung Göd, Company Denies Media Reports

In 2023, Hungary’s government secretly ordered the Constitution Protection Office, the National Information Center, and intelligence agencies to investigate the...

Hungary DRS manages More Than 3 bln Returns in 2025

Hungary's deposit-return system (DRS) managed the return of over 3 billion bottles and cans in 2025, Mohu, a unit of...

Air Quality Deteriorating in Several Parts of Hungary

A high concentration of airborne dust particles is further deteriorating air quality in several parts of Hungary, the National Public...

Gov’t Calls Tender to Support Creation of Wetland Habitats

The gov't is calling a HUF 12.8 billion tender to support the development of natural wetland habitats, contributing to long-term...

Mohu’s Recycling Success Met With Bitter Irony by Large Retail Partners

Hungary’s deposit return system (DRS) on beverage packaging is an “internationally recognized” success, according to Mohu, the monopoly operator, but...