Техноматик Охрид - Хидраулика и Пневматика

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"Tehnomatik is a private company founded by Mr. Budimir Sokolovic in 1996. Till this day Tehnomatik has grown from an home company, to a 400 m2 large industrial hall, with around 10 machines. As it is said in an article by the well known plastics magazine "Modplas", Tehnomatik is one of the 25 Notable Processors for 2006."

Извадок од списанието "Modplas"

" Macedonian molder Tehnomatik could serve as a model for how most processors get their start: a small shop driven by an entrepreneur who, recognizing opportunity, leaps headfirst into a new challenge. In this firm's case the entrepreneur is Sokolovic Budimir, an engineer with experience in hydraulic equipment who made much of his money fixing processing machinery for local molders. "I'm a hydraulics specialist-which is how I got my start in the plastics industry. I was servicing the injection molding machines anyway, so I decided to buy a few and start my own business," he recalls.

To date, the operation is still small-five full-time and five part-time employees-but Budimir has high hopes. "I started my business with DM1500 (about $750). This year I acquired the 400 m2 of land adjacent to my facility, so I can expand.It is sort of the American Dream, but in Macedonia." Tehnomatik has three machines now and is about to add two used German-made presses, which he intends to rebuild. As the photo of him at a trade show indicates, he is not shy of using his homeland's low wages as a drawing card. Costs are assembly by hand e3/hr, injection molding from e5/hr, and insert molding on vertical machine at about e10/hr. He says SMEs are finally starting to get their legs under them in Macedonia. Most of the large, state-run companies disappeared with the breakup of Yugoslavia, he says. Now many Greek companies, including plastics processors, are finding their way to Macedonia, he says, and he hopes to pick up business in the shift.

Most of Tehnomatik's molding business is to now for the automotive market, says Budimir, including parts such as safety-belt covers for Russian carmaker Lada.

Macedonia has many people experienced in plastics processing, he says, but unemployment is more than 30%, poor for the domestic market, but making it easy to find good employees. Budimir is not one to complain: "The situation isn't so good, but you have to make your own success. "