VOLK Electric Trucks in Romania

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	VOLK Electric Trucks in Romania

Zalău, 02.11.2007 – In hardly any other sales region was VOLK able to achieve higher growth rates in the last few years than in Eastern Europe. Whether in Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic or in Hungary – VOLK vehicles are used everywhere today. At the latest since becoming a member of the EU at the beginning of this year, Romania has also become much more im-
portant.

For example, several EFW 5 VOLK Electric Platform Trucks were recently delivered to Zalău in Romania.
The customer Tenaris-Silcotub is a global player, but nevertheless to a large extent unknown to many.

In addition to Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes, Tenaris is the world’s leading producer of steel tubes. For so-
called seamless tubes, the company is even the un-
challenged world leader with a market share of 19 per cent. The products produced by Tenaris are used, for




	The Romanian tube manufacturer S.C. Silcotub S.A. belongs to the global player Tenaris Group since 2004

example, in the automobile and mechanical engineering industry. However, the main customer sectors are the petrochemical industry and the energy sector, where the tubes from Tenaris are used, for example, for constructing




	One of a total of three EFW 5 VOLK Electric Platform Trucks which VOLK delivered to Zalău this year – the morbid charm of flaking plaster must not obscure the fact that more than one hundred million euros have been iinvested in the Zalău location since 2004.

petroleum and natural gas pipelines.

Tenaris thus benefits to a great extent from the high energy prices of the last few years and the investments
of the large petroleum corporations which this has triggered. It is therefore no wonder that the share price of the company has multiplied in the last few years.

With more than 20.000 employees, Tenaris achieves a worldwide annual turnover of 9 billion US dollars. Important production facilities are located in Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Japan and Italy.

In Romania, Tenaris has been producing since 2004, when the company took over the Romanian tube manu-
facturer S.C. Silcotub S.A. At its location in Zalău, where the VOLK Electric Platform Trucks are also used, more than one hundred million euros have been invested. Meanwhile around 220.000 tons of tubes per year are produced there. The crude steel for this comes from the Romanian steelworks Calarasi, which also belongs to the Tenaris Group. The tubes produced in Zalău are

exported to more than 40 countries. In addition to themember states of the European Union, the main customers include the U.S.A., Canada, Mexico and Russia.

The VOLK Electric Platform Trucks are used at Tenaris above all to transport machine parts, tools and oxygen bottles. The high payload of up to 5.000 kg was particu-
larly important to the decision-makers at Tenaris. The sturdy construction of the vehicles also convinced the operators.

The whole town of Zalău is characterized by bustling activity. The up-and-coming town clearly shows that its citizens are participating in the economic success of the biggest local employer. With 63.000 inhabitants, the town situated on the north-west slopes of the Mezes moun-
tains, foothills of the Carpathians, is one of the larger towns in the region of Transsylvania.

This region became internationally famous above all through the novel “Dracula” of the English author Bram Stoker, published in 1897 and since filmed several




	Since the beginning of 2007, Romania has been a member of the Euro- pean Union – the spirit of optimism can be felt everywhere in the country

times. It is based on the legend of the Romanian Count Vlad III Drăculea. However, there is no longer any trace of bats, blood-curdling wolf howls and will o’ the wisps at night. And no vampires have been sighted recently either – unless by enterprising hotel owners and travel companies

	With 63.000 inhabitants, Zalău is one of the larger towns in the region of Transsylvania, which achieved international fame above all through the novel “Dracula”

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