A
new manufacturer of safety systems
The main
objectives of BALKAN-SAST Ltd. for the next two years are to establish solid
positions on the markets in Bulgaria and in neighbouring
countries through delivering basic systems and equipment for railway safety,
which are compliant to EU requirements to this type of systems; to launch the
production of state-of-the-art safety systems through direct transfer of
technological know-how from AZD Prague – in compliance with the specific
requirements of the national railway infrastructure managers in Bulgaria and
its neighbours; to implement a full cycle of
engineering services in efficient cooperation with leading Bulgarian and
foreign companies from the railway infrastructure sector; in cooperation with
high schools and scientific institutions to participate in the training of
experts in the maintenance and operation of contemporary train control systems
and traffic safety; to open new working places, which in 2006 will amount to 80
and in 2007, to 120.