'Covoare-Ungheni' presented a 48-square-metre carpet at the 'Produs Autohton' National Exhibition at Moldexpo. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced the registration of the exhibition's first record — Moldova's largest woven carpet.
SA 'Covoare-Ungheni' will present a 48-square-meter carpet at the 'Produs Autohton' exhibition at Moldexpo on August 28. The company has been insolvent since October 2024.
On 16 July, Mayor Vitalie Vrabie received Nick Pietrowicz, the U.S. Embassy's Chargé d'Affaires a.i., who spoke about “commercial diplomacy” and Ungheni's potential. Beyond the protocol photo, America today means one concrete thing in Ungheni: a factory with American roots (Lear) in the free economic zone and a legacy of USAID projects — bus stops, a fire station, a courthouse — that came to a halt in 2025, when the agency was dismantled. A sober inventory: what is confirmed, what remains only a promise.
The “Forța Fermierilor” (Farmers' Force) association has called a nationwide protest for Wednesday, 24 June, with agricultural machinery on the country's roads, after talks with the Finance Ministry hit a dead end. The stake: the government wants to raise farm VAT from 8% to 20% starting 1 October. It sounds like a budget line — until a farmer from Valea Mare, Ungheni district, shows what it does to 2,000 hectares of grain. The exact protest locations had not yet been announced; that it would also reach Ungheni district we could not confirm at a primary source.
At the government, Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu met farmers and spoke about access to finance, seasonal labour, taxation and the insolvency law. It sounds abstract — until you put it on the map of the Ungheni district: nearly 17,000 hectares of cereals, 10,000 of sunflower, a sector grown to 30,000 hectares, yet carried on the backs of small producers. And on the ground, in Pârlița and Măgurele, town halls are recording drought damage and striking inactive farms off the registers.
The “National Entrepreneurship Tour” stopped in Ungheni, with officials and speeches about opportunity. Beyond the event, though, the question that matters for an Ungheni resident with a business is plainer: how much state support for entrepreneurs actually reaches the district. The answer is in the open data — in 2024, nine firms from the Ungheni district drew ODA grants worth 3.81 million lei, more than neighbouring districts. And that in a year when the district lost both jobs and turnover.
On 14–16 July, in Ungheni, people who want to start a business — or have just started one — from the Ungheni, Fălești, Nisporeni and Călărași districts can learn for free, from specialists, how to keep a firm afloat. The programme, funded from European money, has reached its eighth round. The hook isn't festive, though: in the Ungheni district, businesses employed over 700 fewer people in 2024 than in 2021, and wages remain a fifth below the national average.
