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When the 1995th The Siemens invested in the company Končarevo portable washer Power Transformers, it has employed 147 workers, while the total income was about 20 million DEM. After 15 years, the KonÄŤar-ENT-in, joint venture with Siemens majority ownership, to nearly 500 employees, total revenue amounted to 172 million euros, and the products and knowledge are exported to 80 countries worldwide. Approaching Croatian portable washer accession to the European Union has begun to re-awaken the interest of foreign investors in all segments of the Croatian economy, including industry. At the recently held forums with German and Italian portable washer companies showed that there is strong interest for this economic area, according to which often many in Croatia relations with disparaging.
It is not difficult to conclude that the Croatian manufacturing industry needs new investment cycle and investments in technological portable washer upgrading. According to research Maruska Vizek and Marina Tkalec, a scientist with the Institute of Economics in Zagreb, Croatia is known for industry circumstances lost the race in technological development. While the 1997th The production of the predominant share of high and higher technological level occupied 28 percent of the total value added of industrial production, the percentage 2007th dropped to 23.7 percent. In contrast, the percentage srednjotehnološke portable washer production rose from 19.2 to 21.6 percent (this, for example, includes shipbuilding). Low-tech manufacturing share rose from 52.3 to 54.7 percent.
Investments driven Although the share of gross value added in manufacturing is somewhat similar in the EU and Croatia (17.1 versus 15.1 percent), the production of high technology intensity and more waste in Europe is far greater percentage: 44.9 percent in 2007 . year, compared to the aforementioned 23.7 percent in Croatia. May I, therefore, investments related to the approach of the European Union to encourage positive technological trend in Croatia? Participants in the recently held German-Croatian forums believe they can. Klaus Kellerhoff, senior vice president of EADS, Europe's largest aerospace company, said in Zagreb that his company started its inspection of Croatian companies for possible cooperation.
"We reviewed a variety of companies and are surprised by the high educational portable washer level of employees," said Kellerhoff. Is not it possible to work directly with EADS-TV, there is a possibility of cooperation with some of its 20,000 suppliers. EADS has given the signal to suppliers to seek cost-efficient producers in the southeast of Europe and thus in Bosnia portable washer and Herzegovina has achieved cooperation with several small and medium-sized portable washer enterprises. Mladen Fogec, CEO of Siemens in Croatia, says his company has developed high-tech production facilities in Jankomiru, and it is very important portable washer work and their many software engineers. In Jankomiru are made termoosjetila and pressure sensors, and all production portable washer is exported. At Siemens, and 450 highly educated software engineers portable washer who create programs for all branches of Siemens worldwide. "We have a smart and educated people and it should be based development," portable washer said Fogec. Together with KonÄŤar-Power Transformers, who are the winners of the Golden Key Best Croatian large exporters, the Siemens group companies achieved last year, exports increased by 200 million euros.
Similar effects of cooperation with foreign companies can be seen in Elektrokontakt. "Few people in Croatia knows that buying a stove brands Electrolux, Bosch or Miele, buys and parts produced in factories in Zagreb Zitnjak" says Vladimir Ferdelji CEO ELEKTROKONTAKT. The company is part of the German-Swiss EGO, who bought it 1993rd 11 years ago Elektrokontakt in the number of employees located at 10th place in the group, as the years have gone to another place and now employs 1,400 workers. Total income was EUR 70 million, and 90 percent of production goes to export. In January this year, the Group is in Zagreb from Switzerland moved and manufacture of electric switches. They decided that because portable washer here is the same level of automation and lower cost of the highly educated workforce. "The work we do not get that we were innovative and that we have not followed trends in technology of our production," said Ferdelji.
Hightech According Ljubunčića Sani, director portable washer of the Agency for the Promotion of Trade and Investment, Croatia has a lot to offer just investors in the sector of higher and high technology. With an educated workforce, they do not need much space for production facilities and locations can be found in one of the existing business zones. They want to know, however, start production within a reasonable time and without major administrative barriers, but already there are things much worse. The announced the renewal portable washer of railway infrastructure money of EU funds, companies portable washer from high-tech sectors could also find a place. For example, Altpro, producing sophisticated systems for railway safety. While failing portable washer to get jobs in China, and Latin America