With more than 30 years of experience, voestalpine VAE APCAROM has strengthened its position in the Romanian market, being the only Romanian company which manufactures and supplies turnouts for rail lines and underground lines and a trustworthy partner for trams and companies with individual industrial lines. Part of a group with highly efficient standards in technology, voestalpine VAE APCAROM has adjusted its technological and manufacturing system to meet the quality and cost effectiveness for its products.
The company has delivered turnouts and spare parts for foreign markets such as Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, Slovenia, Austria, Serbia and Bulgaria. For the second activity field, the production of sleeper screws and vertical screws, voestalpine VAE APCAROM has delivered its products in the Netherlands, Spain, Lithuania, Austria and Denmark, as well as in Africa and Asia.
The company’s products could also be found on the Romanian section of the pan-European Corridor IV, one of the most important projects for the rehabilitation and modernization of railway infrastructure, currently underway in Romania.
voestalpine VAE APCAROM is deve-loping an investment programme for the modernisation of the production sector of the plant based in Buzău, through the project “Contribution of VAE APCAROM to the sustainable development of the South-East region of Romania with the modernisation of the manufacturing sector of the plant in Buzău”. The project is co-financed through the European Regional Development Fund, Sectoral Operational Programme “Economic Competitiveness Growth”.
The project was presented in August in Buzău and the event was developed on two plans, a work visit at the headquarters of voestalpine VAE APCAROM’s production unit followed by a conference where the project was detailed.
The total cost of the project amounts to RON 25.9 Million (EUR 5.5 Million) of which non-reimbursable financial assis-tance is RON 9.11 Million (EUR 2 Million) and the financing structure includes own funds, European funds, EFRD, as well as state-budget funds.
The general objective of the project, the company’s representatives say, is the modernisation of the production sector through the acquisition of technical equipments, of an automated system for the control of orders and technical documentation, as well as the extension of the manufacturing capacity.
The necessity and opportunity of investments in the production sector have been dictated by several essential factors.
Under the project, the company will buy several important equipments such as mobile milling machine, fixed longitudinal milling machine, horizontal pressing machine for straightening and bending rolling marks and line for the threading of screws.
The main objectives of the project include increasing competitiveness in the domestic and foreign markets relying on increasing productivity, increasing the turnover by at least 50% in five years after the finalization of the investment, compared to 2010, but also increasing export by 49%.
Hiring another 26 employees in three years after the finalization of investments is another objective of the above-mentioned project. Also, in the first year of operation, the company’s officials expect costs for maintenance and repairs to be reduced by 8%.
The complete integration of the production process documentation in the automated system, from receiving the order to delivery to beneficiary, is an innovative system supported through the investments carried out in this project and implies the acquisition of an automated order management system and a management system for the technical documentation.
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