"Sinterom" Cluj-Napoca Turnover Up 26%In H1

Set up 72 years ago, Sinterom S.A - Cluj-Napoca produces and markets the following range of products: 1. Firing and engine-switch equipments, engine spark plugs, incandescent spark plugs, firing electrodes, thermo starter for cold switch-off of Diesel engine. 2. Sintered parts for motor industry and other industrial domains: distribution pinions, cog wheels for belts, pinions for oil cans, damper parts, iron works parts, jacks and lubricant bearings made of bronze and iron. 3. Filtered and synthesized elements of powder bronze 4. Friction disks and lamellas. 5. motor accessories: manual lubrication pumps, pneumatic tyre pumps, car trunks, hoses. 6. Wolfram and molybdenum products: wires, electrodes, bars, metallization spirals, heating products. 7. Sintered electrical contacts: tablets: (different compositions- AgW, AgWNi, AgNi, AgC, AgCdO, Wcu), wires (AgNi); 8. Metallic magnets and rare magnets.

In 1999, the company obtained the certification of the Quality Insurance System, in accordance with ISO 9001/1996 given by TUV Management Service GmbH, rectified in 2004 (ISO 9001/2000), and completed in 2005, in accordance with ISO TS 16.949, requested by the most important motor vehicles producers.

12,593,000 lei Turnover In H1

In the first 6 months of this year Sinterom S.A - Cluj-Napoca recorded the following year-on-year results: 12,593,739 lei turnover, by 2,596,371 lei (26%) more than in H1:2007, that reached 9,997,368 lei, 13,899,169 lei as operating revenue (11,404,400 lei), 12,711,343 as operating expenses (10,119,838), 1,187,826 lei the operating profit (1,284,561 lei), 344,347 lei the financial profit recorded (325,838 lei), 13,976,691 lei total revenues (11,457,913 lei), 13,133,212 lei total spending (10,499,189 lei), 543,714 lei net profit (798,129lei). On 30 June 2008, the total debt reached 7,865,604 lei, out of which 7,478,536 lei due in less than a year.

Production capacity

The activities ofSinterom S.A. - Cluj-Napoca are currently organized in seven different factories, in strictly delimited and separately managed areas, that are considered strategic business units, the major corporate assets consisting of: sintered hull and thermal treatment workshop, 8917 sqm, spark plugs production hall 5,098 sqm, wires production hall 3,964 sqm, contact hall 3,655 sqm, ceramics hall 4,403 sqm, magnet foundry works hall 3,226 sqm, turnery and tool house halls 2,443 sqm, hydrogen station 2,388 sqm, thermal station, mechanics, compressed air station, 4,403 sqm, micro-production hall 1,850 sqm.