Further Decisions at Sinvoz Factory Depend on State’s Next Steps

Source: Zrenjaninski Monday, 21.12.2020. 10:53
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What the operations of the Zrenjanin-based rail vehicle production and repair company Sinvoz will look like largely depends on the state’s next steps.

– At the moment, 300 workers receive salaries, in production and side services, although realistically there is no work for everyone. We have used state aid and we respect the decision that there are no layoffs – the director of Sinvoz, Radomir Miljus, says for the zrenjaninski.com portal.

– Our business decisions depend on what the state will do with the outstanding liabilities, whether there will be a grace period, and what happens with the postponed wage taxes and contributions – Miljus explains.

At the beginning of the year, he says, the plans were ambitious, but the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March stopped nearly everything.

– In early 2020, the production line for prototypes of train roofs was supposed to be put into operation, for the French company Bombardier. The job is worth EUR 3 million. Coronavirus, however, put a stop to everything – Miljus says.

According to him, this production line required constant physical presence of engineers from the French company, which was impossible before November.

– We have now managed to prepare all the prototypes, which are being tested. If everything goes as planned, the production should successively begin in late February and gradually increase. If everything goes as planned, this would make for enough work for the second and then the third shift in June 2021, which would gradually increase the number of workers employed on the line – Miljus emphasizes.

Protection measures observed at Sinvoz

Other programs are functioning regularly, but there’s a problem with the ordering parties not being liquid, primarily in the rail sector, when it comes to those contracted jobs. Sinvoz never stopped the production activities. The employees kept coming to work, and those who had nothing to do at the facility were put on jobs of maintain the factory, the factory area…


Protection measures are observed at the factory. According to Miljus, there have been very few infected employees in the production sector. There were more in the administrative sector.

– At the moment, there must be 40 to 50 surplus workers. We will need them in May or June, when the production reaches full capacity, but until then, we will not be able to pay the salaries and all other obligations to workers who realistically have nothing to do, because we have exhausted our internal resources.

– That is why we are waiting for the next steps of the Government of Serbia, because our decisions depend on what the state does – notes Radomir Miljus.
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