- CEO
- Viorel-Dorin Popoviciu
- Full Time Employees
- 119
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Industrial machinery
- Address
- Cluj Napoca Romania
- IPO Date
- Feb 11, 1997
- Business
- Carbochim SA is a Romania-based industrial manufacturing company primarily engaged in the development, production, and distribution of professional abrasive products and grinding tools. The company operates through three core product divisions: vitrified bonded abrasives, resinoid bonded abrasives, and coated abrasives. Its comprehensive product portfolio includes vitrified grinding wheels designed for surface, cylindrical, centerless, gear, and tool grinding applications; resin-bonded reinforced cutting-off and deburring wheels for portable angle grinders and stationary cutting machines; coated abrasive materials comprising abrasive cloth and paper converted into jumbo rolls, narrow and wide belts, sheets, velcro discs, flap discs, and spindle-mounted flap wheels; abrasive dressing stones, segments, and honing sticks; and elastic bonded polishing wheels. In addition to manufacturing, Carbochim provides custom engineering of specialized grinding tools, technical advisory services, and the commercial distribution of complementary power tool accessories and personal protective equipment. The company serves a diverse client base across multiple industrial sectors, including metallurgy, automotive manufacturing, aerospace, machinery fabrication, metal processing, woodworking, construction, and retail hardware. Founded in 1949 and headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Carbochim operates a nationwide sales and distribution network across Romania and exports its product lines to international markets across Central and Eastern Europe. The company is publicly traded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CBC and is majority-owned by Carbo Europe SRL, an entity affiliated with the IULIUS Group. In recent major operational developments, Carbochim completed the strategic relocation and comprehensive modernization of its manufacturing operations, transitioning production from its legacy industrial facility to a newly built, state-of-the-art production plant situated in the Bulevardul Muncii industrial zone of Cluj-Napoca. Supported by a multimillion-euro capital investment program, this operational overhaul included the commissioning of automated, high-precision processing machinery, upgraded bonding and curing systems, and optimized logistics infrastructure to enhance production capacity, improve resource efficiency, and lower carbon emissions, while enabling the urban redevelopment of its historic property.