National Hard Coal Company


The National Hard Coal Company was set up as a commercial society by the Government of Romania in 1998. The main headquarters of the company is placed in Petroşani, the principal city in the coal mining region of Hunedoara County's Jiu Valley.
The company has its material base in Gorj, Hunedoara and Mehedinţi counties with total reserves of 350 million tonnes of coal.
The annual production is around 3 million tonnes of bituminous coal and the total number of employees is around 12,000.