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The Slovak company SAM - SHIPBUILDING AND MACHINERY develops engineering technologies for the shipping, chemical and power sectors, as well as for several other industries. Most of its products, made in its three plants in Bratislava, Komárno and Liptovský Mikuláš, are shipped to the EU countries. Its management is now planning to penetrate new areas. Romana Moares reports.
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he engineering company SAM - SHIPBUILDING AND MACHINERY, earlier known as Stroje a Mechanizmy a.s., was founded in 1996. The plant today consists of two divisions and their product portfolios together include steel hulls for ships, welded and steel components for building and road machines, such as underframes, booms, transversal beams and pylons as well as components for recycling machines made for ecological waste treatment. The Bratislava plant has produced pressure vessels of all kinds since 1960. Its current core business is the production, repair and assembly of equipment for the chemical, energy, gas and food industries, and the repair and maintenance of high-capacity storage tanks. The company also makes and delivers ready-to-use steel structures.
“The Bratislava plant is an exclusive producer of chemical and petrochemical apparatus, such as heat exchangers, columns, reactors, pressure vessels, air coolers, filters and similar products. The plant also has an Investment Project division, providing turnkey projects including the erection, repairs and renovations of technological plants,” explains Mustafa Habirkou, the head of the company’s Commercial section. The third subsidiary, SAM - WET (Water and Environmental Technology) is located in Liptovský Mikuláš and provides engineering services for water and waste management technologies employed in industrial plants and public buildings. “All three facilities work in close partnership, making use of synergies, shared experience and know-how. All this makes the company stronger in the competitive marketplace,” says Mr Habirkou.
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