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The Danobat Group, which belongs to MCC and has its headquarters in Elgoibar, has set up a company called DANOMAR, S.A. in Romania, as a joint venture with the Romanian firm Napomar. The Danobat Group has a 55% holding in the new company and has had the financial support of MCC Inversiones for the project.

Relations between the Danobat Group and Napomar started in the second half of 2000. Since then, a close framework of collaboration has been established in different business areas, with significant improvements made in plant and layout, production equipment and processes, technology used to manufacture machinery, quality control, etc. At the end of 2001, bearing in mind the success achieved in production and quality, the Danobat Group made a formal proposal to the management of Napomar, a company with a total of 400 employees, to set up a joint venture, which has finally materialised during the first quarter of this year.

With the setting up of Danomar, located in the Romanian town of Cluj, the Danobat Group has established an important base of operations for the penetration of it products into Europe and the rest of the world. It will also achieve a better competitive position, by offering more and completing the advanced range of machinery manufactured in Elgoibar with standard technology products manufactured in Romania, as it is more profitable for the joint venture to manufacture these.

Danomar is the first production plant set up by the Danobat Group abroad, although it has had two important offices in Germany since 1992. One is in Limburg, close to Frankfurt, with a staff of more than 30 people, for the sale of milling centres manufactured by Soraluce, which is currently the biggest foreign supplier of milling machines on the German market. The other office is in Herborn and focuses on the sale of lathes and grinding machines. In addition to Germany, the Group also has sales offices in the United States, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Japan and China.

The Danobat Group, the leader in the machine tools sector in Spain, is made up of the Danobat, Estarta, Goiti, Lealde, Soraluce and D+S Sistemas co-operatives, together with the Ideko research centre, devoted exclusively to machine tools. The Danobat Group employs a total of 850 people. In 2001 it recorded a turnover of 145.6 million euros, which was 22.5% more than the previous year. Export sales were high accounting for 72.3% of total sales.

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