Second office
Romania is the only country outside Slovakia where we have a physical office — Piața Presei Libere in sector 1, Bucharest. MPIS's second branch serves as a satellite for the Romanian market, as a node for the Black Sea industrial corridor (Constanța — Galați — Brăila), and as a language base for contracts where communication in Romanian speeds the process up.
Technically we've delivered two relevant projects in Romania: `edge-datacenter-telco` in Bucharest (2024) — a modern edge data centre for a telco client with Vertiv SmartMod infrastructure, InfiniBand backbone, DWDM optical transport and EcoStruxure IT DCIM. And `ai-cluster-research-lab` in Cluj-Napoca (2025) — an NVIDIA Blackwell cluster for a research lab with Mellanox InfiniBand NDR and Slurm + Pyxis orchestration for containerised workloads.
Regulatory framework
For electrical installations the I7-2011 normative applies (the Romanian standard for design, execution and operation of building electrical installations) — the baseline of HD 60364 with Romanian adaptations. For distribution and transmission networks NTE (Normativ Tehnic Energetic) applies — the NTE 007/08/00 series for LV and MV distribution, NTE 008/05 for HV lines. For occupational safety, Codul Muncii (Legea 53/2003) plus HG 1146/2006 for minimum safety requirements in the use of electrical equipment.
For building permits, Lege 50/1991 (autorizarea construcțiilor) is relevant — the Romanian equivalent of the Slovak Building Act. For ATEX zones Directive 2014/34/EU is applied in Romanian transposition via HG 245/2016. For lifting equipment ISCIR (Inspecția de Stat pentru Cazane, Recipiente sub Presiune și Instalații de Ridicat) as the Romanian parallel of UDT in Poland.
Bucharest IT cluster
Over the past decade Bucharest has been the strongest IT cluster in south-eastern Europe. Bitdefender (global security vendor), UiPath (RPA platform with 2021 IPO), Endava, Crystal Decisions, Telekom Romania, Vodafone Romania — all centralised in zones around the Piața Romană, Aviatorilor and Pipera metro. For infrastructure work (data centre, fibre backbone, DCIM, AI compute) it's a client with real continuous demand.
Our `edge-datacenter-telco` project in Bucharest was exactly in this domain — Vertiv SmartMod modular capacity for telco edge, shifting communication load closer to 5G base stations.
Cluj-Napoca and the Transylvanian IT cluster
The second strongest Romanian IT cluster is in Cluj-Napoca — Bosch Engineering Center, Emerson Electric R&D, NTT DATA, Endava Cluj, the Tetarom IT cluster. The character here is more research-oriented than in Bucharest — Babes-Bolyai University is the academic partner for most firms, and a significant share of work goes into AI, computer vision and high-performance computing.
Our `ai-cluster-research-lab` project in Cluj was for a research lab — 8 nodes with 2× NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell per node, InfiniBand NDR backbone, water cooling (rear-door HX), Slurm orchestration with Pyxis containerisation. Here our Data Centres and Software/AI pillars meet in a single delivery.
Other Romanian centres
**Timișoara** — Continental's strongest plant in Romania plus operations for Hella, Procter & Gamble, Linde Gaz. Classic automotive supplier orbit with a Vienna catchment.
**Iași** — Amazon Iași R&D Lab for Alexa and AWS, Continental Iași (information systems), Endava Iași. An IT outsourcing cluster in Moldavia.
**Brașov** — Schaeffler România, Premium Aerotec (aerostructures for Airbus), Stabilus (gas springs). An industrial cluster with German / Austrian capital ties.
**Constanța** — Port Constanța (the largest Black Sea port), Lukoil + OMV Petrom Marine Operations (offshore gas), Mittal Steel Galați (steel mill). The Black Sea industrial corridor.
Our commuting relationship
From Prešov to Bucharest, via SK-HU motorways + Nădlac to Arad, the drive is around 9 hours, realistically 2.5 hours by air (KSC → OTP via Vienna or by air via Krakow). For Romanian projects we work in a regime: the Bucharest office handles on-site representation and coordination with the client, the Slovak team works through shorter trips.
Communication with authorities (ITM — Inspectoratul Teritorial de Muncă for posted workers, ISCIR for lifts, ANRE for energy equipment) runs primarily through the Bucharest office.
Cross-border regime
For Slovak posted workers, Romanian law requires ITM notification at least 30 days before work begins (a longer term than most other countries — DE has 14 days, AT has 7 days). Plus A1 from Slovak Social Insurance and standard employment documentation. For our ongoing projects we have rolling registration, so new deployments under existing contracts go with shorter lead time.
Where it pays to come to us in Romania
Data centres and AI infrastructure — we have two documented projects with full reference value. Automotive supplier orbit in Timișoara, Brașov, Iași — we're reachable through the combination of the Bucharest office and the Slovak team. IT clusters Bucharest and Cluj — we have verifiable work and are actively looking to expand.
For core nuclear energy (Cernavodă plant), petrochemicals (Petrobrazi refinery) and steel (Liberty Steel Galați), local Romanian firms with decades of experience are sought first and we have no primary reference in these domains.