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Sava, Rubber and Chemical Industry, d.d.

Goodyear Engineered Product Europe

Sava Tires, Tire Manufacturing Company, d.o.o.
Sava Tires, Tire Manufacturing Company, d.o.o.
Škofjeloška 6
4502 Kranj
Slovenia

Phone:  ++  386 64 265 841
Telefax: ++  386 64 221 114
internet: http://www.sava.si
e-mail:   info@goodyear.com
SAVA TIRES

Sava Tires is a company manufacturing and marketing passenger car, light truck and truck tires. The company is jointly owned by the American corporation The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. from Akron, Ohio and the Slovenian corporation Sava, d.d. from Kranj.

Mission

  • To be low cost supply source for Sava and associate brands; and
  • To grow Sava brand SOM in Western Europe to 2.5 % while maintaining current (corporate) SOM in domestic market, 50 - 60%; and
  • To achieve financial goals consistently higher than Western Europe average.

Wealth of Tradition

The tradition of the Slovenian rubber industry dates back to 1920 when a handicraft workshop first registered the manufacture of rubber products in Kranj. The production subsequently expanded, and was enlarged to include various rubber products. The organization structure has changed several times but Kranj has always remained the center of the Slovenian rubber industry.

The awareness of the fact that if one wants to keep up with the competition and develop in such an intensive and demanding branch of industry, this requires international linkage with the world s best producers. This lead to the partnership with one of the leading rubber industry corporations in the world - the American Goodyear corporation.

Plans for Growth

Joining the Goodyear family will enable the new company to have access to advanced technology and to globalize its business process. In the next five years Sava Tires intends doubling the present volume of tire production.

Excellence of the Producer

The strategic partnership of two distinguished rubber producers that started on December 10, 1997, links the excellence of two recognized brand names - Sava and Goodyear - and gives a wider accessibility to the world and to new achievements in development and technology; as well as bringing a capital strength to both strategic partners. Sava, d.d., which has a 40 % share in the new company, has already produced more than 4,8 million automobile tires per year prior to this strategic alliance and had a turnover of 166,3 million US dollars in 1997.

Know-How, Quality, Environment

Sava Tires, as a market-oriented company, increases its competitive advantage through cost rationalization as well as up-to-date improvements in the field of organization and technology. Know-how, productivity and quality remain the basic values of the company.
Sava Tires is ISO 9001 certified and automobile tires carrying the Sava brand name fulfil international EAQF standard requirements for the car industry.
The production of automobile tires pays great respect to environmental protection. The accepted environmental policy, set objectives, and environmental protection programs on which Sava Tires bases and improves its environmental management systems, are a step further towards the fulfilment of the requirements set out in the ISO 14001 standard.

Sava Tires, d.o.o. is run by the Board of Directors
Managing Director:
Marketing and Sales:
Production:
Finance:
Materials Management:
Human Resources:

Public Relations:

Richard A. Johnson
Stanislav Koren
Dušan Kveder
John Robinson
Dušan Ravnihar
Vanda Pečjak

Jelka Laurenčič
 

OWNER STRUCTURE
no. of employees:
investment in five years:
sales - plan 98*:
profit - plan 98* :
 1,725
US$ 100 mio
US$ 165,244,000
US$ 10,766,000
Production program:
  • tires for private cars
  • tires for commercial and light vehicles (vans)
no. of employees:
investment in five years:
sales - plan 98*:
profit - plan 98* :
 200
US$  30,000,000
US$  31,954,000
US$    2,056,000
Production program:
  • air springs
  • fan belts and toothed belts
  • rubber tubes for the automobile industry
no. of employees:
investment in five years:
sales - plan 98*:
profit - plan 98* :
 1,357
US$  17,175,385
US$  54,368,386
US$  12,868,012
Production program:
  • tires for bicycles, scooters and mopeds - tires and inner tubes for light tractors - solid fork-lift tires
  • inner tubes for car tires
  • molded products
  • seal profiles for the construction industry - conveyor belts
  • products for environmental protection and rescue
  • products for the pharmaceutical industry
  • products for bridge-building
  • the production of caoutchouc compound and rubber semi-manufactures
  • adhesives and chemical products
  • rollers linings for the paper industry - trade
  • tourism
  • chemicals

Sava Tires ended the business year 1998 with profits at SIT 530 million (3.3 million USD) and with revenues at SIT 14.6 billion (91 million USD). In 1998 Sava Tires produced 4,992,445 tires (52,545 tons).