Pirdop municipality is located in South-West Bulgaria in Sofia District. The Municipality consists of 2 cities and villages. The regional center of Pirdop municipality is Town of Pirdop. Information about Municipality Pirdop
Business: Pirdop based Aurubis Bulgaria JSC invests BGN 3.6 million Town of Pirdop >> Friday, 2009-10-30 02:00 Source: Dnevnik.bg Pirdop -based Aurubis Bulgaria will inject around BGN 3.6 million to install a 10 MW capacity at its copper smelter that will produce electricity from residual heat, said Nicolas Treand, chief executive of the local division of Germany’s Aurubis, the biggest copper producer in Europe. Treand said that heat during the production process is released not through fuel burning but through chemical processes. It will be used to drive steam turbines that will generate green power to use onsite and meet 25... Business: BG Companies made new deals with Chinese firms for USD 850 million City of Sofia >> Friday, 2009-10-16 04:00 Source: Darik Radio Sofia . Six Bulgarian companies made deals with Chinese firms Thursday worth a total of USD 850 million. The contracts were signed during a ceremony at Bulgaria’s Council of Ministers in the presence of Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and the Vice President of China, Xi Jinping. Aurubus Bulgaria AD ( Pirdop ) and China Minemetals Development Co. singed a deal for the purchase of electrolytic copper worth USD 800 million. Bulgaria Litex CO and Great Wall Motor Sharing signed a shareholders...
Accidents: 15 Bulgarian tourists from Pirdop, Chelopech and Anton, drowned in the lake of Ohrid Town of Pirdop >> Sunday, 2009-09-06 08:00 Source: StandartNews " The bolt jolted abruptly and we all fell overboard. Few of us could swim. Those who could not grabbed whatever they could reach pieces of wood, fragments of the ship`s body, everything that could float. Many of those in the water were screaming in terror ," Ivan, one of the survivors on the sunken Ilindem boat, told. Fifteen Bulgarian tourists drowned in the lake of Ohrid on Saturday after their boat suddenly split apart and sunk. The accident occurred at 12 pm Bulgarian time. A group of Bulg... Business: Copper smelter Aurubis expands its facility near town of Pirdop Town of Pirdop >> Wednesday, 2009-05-13 09:00 Source: Dnevnik.bg German copper producer Aurubis will plough BGN 30 million in an expansion of its copper slag enrichment facility near the central Bulgarian town of Pirdop . The upgrade is part of a strategy to streamline operations by stepping up copper extraction, the company said. Two years ago investments to the tune of EUR 122 million in the Pirdop plant earned the copper producer a first-class investor certificate, a document that fast-tracks the project through administrative bottleneck. Aurubis Bulgaria has a cap... Finances: Raiffeisenbank opened 9 offices in April Municipality Pirdop >> Friday, 2008-05-30 12:34 Source: Focus Agency Raiffeisenbank has reportedly cut the ribbon to 9 offices in April, thus raising the number of its locations to 166 branches countrywide. Raiffeisenbank is now debuting in Bansko, Isperih, Levski and Pirdop. New offices have also been inaugurated in Stara Zagora, Pleven and Haskovo. The number of Raiffeisenbank offices in Sofia stands at 37 now. Accidents: Teenage Driver Hits Policeman in Bulgaria Town of Pirdop >> Friday, 2008-03-28 17:45 Source: Novinite.com A 19-year-old driver hit a policeman in the western Bulgarian town of Pirdop, while trying to escape a police check. The teenager was making his getaway after stealing 120 litres of diesel fuel from an excavator of a local construction company when police patrol unsuccessfully tried to stop the car and the officer was hit. The life of the injured policeman is out of danger, doctors reported. The driver has already been arrested. Business: Chelopech Mining EAD opens a Professional Training Center Village of Chelopech >> Friday, 2007-09-21 08:00 Source: DPM Group On 17th September in Pirdop Chelopech Mining Professional Training Center was officially opened. The Center is a joint initiative of the management of Chelopech Mining EAD and the vocational school for mechanical and electrical engineering in the town.
The Center launches its first training course – An Apprenticeship Programme in the Chelopech Process Plant. It provides the opportunity for practical experience, additional training and employment for graduates in the field of mechanical and elect...