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December 2011

Newsletter No. 1

FAKOM INFO Scholarships for the best students FAKOM stays always on young engineers side

According to the Framework Agreement for technical and scientific cooperation within development and improvement of the steel structures, signed between FAKOM AD – Skopje and the Faculty of Civil i.e. Mechanical Engineering at UKIM –Skopje in order to motivate the education within production and design engineering, FAKOM AD – Skopje, the leading company for production and erection of steel structures and equipment in Southeastern Europe awards two scholarships to students at the Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering Faculty for the academic year 2011/2012.

This results from the long-standing cooperation between the company and both faculties in the field of student exchange and also in terms of technical and educational advancement of the engineering staff working at FAKOM, AD – Skopje.

This scholarship offering, tending to become traditional, once again confirms that FAKOM is a company that constantly invests in its efficiency and at the same time it supports education and professional training of Macedonian future engineers.

Inside this issue: FAKOM keeps rewarding the best students

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FAKOM introduce the modern metrology

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Visit to Germany

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Arena for great victories

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FAKOM build large industrial facilities

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FAKOM on the international and regional conferences

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FAKOM keeps rewarding FAKOM awards for the best graduation thesis at the Faculties of Civil and Mechanical Engineering for 2010/2011

On October 6th 2011, the day of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Skopje, at a celebration in the presence of eminent guests, Aleksandra Cvetanovska was awarded the prize “FAKOM” for graduation thesis in the field of steel structures for 2010/2011 entitled :”Hanging Roof Structure – Overhang”.

The same award was given on June 17th, the day of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering to Martin Petreski for graduation thesis entitled: “MIG-MAG welding of structural steel parts’’. Martin now works at FAKOM. The "FAKOM" awards, consisting of a plaque-certificate and a monetary award to the amount of the average net salary of FAKOM was handed by M.Sc. Zlatko Simonovski, General Manager of FAKOM, AD – Skopje.

FAKOM introduces modern metrology FAKOM purchased modern and sophisticated equipment and software "FAKOM, AD Skopje carries out the strategic decision to fully implement the modern metrology.”

from the latest generation of modern metrology: Laser Absolute Tracker Leica AT401, Laser total station Leica TDRA 6000 and dedicated software PolyWorks for inspection and modeling.

The equipment is fully portable and with support of the software it provides a simple way of interactive, real-time and accurate millimeter measuring of 3D (x, y, z) spatial data of existing structures, structures under construction or parts thereof (structures, assemblies, elements, points) during separate stages of production and installation, to perform modeling, inspection, comparison of the manufactured /installed model with the projected 3D model, to perform virtual simulation of a trial installation or measured data of the already built structures to be used for the project ¬ forming of the reconstructions, repairs and rehabilitation, specifically for reverse engineering / design.

Leica absolute tracer

This equipment and software is unique in the wider region and the services for 3D measurement, inspection, modeling, virtual simulation of a trial installation are available for external users too.

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Visit to Germany From October 10th to October 12th 2011, expert team of FAKOM has visited Kjelberg Finsterwalde Company in Germany. The company manufacturing electrodes and possess its own plants for manufacturing steel products, windmills, hard welded metal sheets and other different products. Kjelberg cooperate with plenty of well-known manufacturers for CNC cutting machines equipment, ESAB, MESSER, MICROSTEP and others.

Kjelberg offers sufficient technological solutions for many companies with similar activities including FAKOM, which will use it within its technical upgrade.

Kjellberg Finsterwalde Corporation

Arena for great victories FAKOM was part of a winning team that worked on the reconstruction of the Arena Filip II

Our country has finally gotten a valuable sport arena. Thanks to the complete reconstruction and renovation of the south stand and the construction of the new north, east and west stand, performed under the strictest standards of FIFA, the arena got a new and modern look.

The facility which was officially handed over on April 24th 2011, FAKOM manufactured and erected about 1,700 tons of steel structure and by 12,000 m2 roof covering, profiled sheet metal and steel structure carrying two displays, the largest in this part of Europe.

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FAKOM build large industrial facilities For the new production plant for processing of meat and meat products of Pekabesko AD - Skopje, FAKOM manufactured and erected 850 tons of steel structure and mounted about 21,000 m2 and cladding roof panels.

FAKOM participate in the construction of production halls, manufacture of cranes and other equipment for facilities of IGM Trade Kavadarci, in cooperation with the German manufacturing giant mining equipment producer, TyssenKrupp Fรถrdertechnik, FAKOM worked this year on assembling the 10 mile conveyor belt with five feeding stations in open cast Brod Gneotino in REK Bitola, a project of the Public Power company of Macedonia (ELEM).

FAKOM is also active outside the territory of our country. For the croation company Montmontazha from Zagreb, FAKOM produced this year about 7,000 tons of steel structure for tanks for Janaf pipeline - Sisak. During the 2011 FAKOM has various smaller projects, demonstrating once again that not by coincidence for five decades is a crucial segment in the metal industry in Europe and worldwide.

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FAKOM participates on the international and regional conferences Already becoming a tradition FAKOM to present their achievements in regional scientific and professional conferences. This year the engineering team of FAKOM took part in GED-2011 conference (Skopje fair, May 2011) with the work “Introduction of BIM / FIM concept in FAKOM”. On the 13th International Symposium of the Society of Structural Engineers of Macedonia (Struga, September 2011), introduce oneself with the works: “Project for the steel structure of geodesic dome of the Macedonian Parliament, the use of BIM / FIM and the laser metrology in FAKOM and assemblable car parks. The works geodesic dome assemblable car parks are also published in Porta 3 journal. (www.porta3.com.mk ) FAKOM participated in the 3rd Euro – Asian Forum for construction EACEF- 2011 (Indonesia, September 2011) with the work “National Sport Arena in Skopje, Macedonia. An Application of Cost Effective Detailing Concept”.

The round table discussion, “Haw to get a better Construction Law” organized by the Engineering Chamber of Macedonia and MASE (Macedonian Association of Structural Engineers) (September 2011), where FAKOM participated with opening statement. The opening statement was also published in the Porta3 journal.

Project for the structure of geodesic dome of the Macedonian Parliament — first of this kind in Macedonia, designed by FAKOMs design team.

Maximum adjustable and cost efficient The project assemblable car parks—conceptual and construction solution of FAKOM

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Great opportunity to meet the giants of the steel industry On November 10 in the CCD Congress Center in Dusseldorf held an annual international symposium, STAHL 2011 for the companies in the steel industry in Germany, this year under the motto "knowledge, material values."

On several panel discussions were discussed new technologies in metallurgy, the latest trends in production and the future of the steel industry worldwide. http://www.stahl.de Useful links: http://www.metalbulletin.com/ http://www.steelonthenet.com/ http://www.icnbm.com/