Twice as many elevators from Simanovci - Construction of Kleeman Liftovi Srbija's new production facilities expected to end in May

In the year of its tenth anniversary, the elevator maker Kleemann Liftovi Srbija plans to open new production facilities.

The company's existing production facility in Simanovci has a capacity of 60 elevators a month or about 700 complete elevators a year, while new production plants are expected to increase production by 100%.

The plan is to build a new business and production facility of over 5,000 square meters is across the road from the location where this company is currently situated. As Rajna Kleeman Liftovi Commercial Director Rajna Banjesevic explains to eKapija, this land was bought late last year, and the preparation of final design and preparation works are now underway.

- In 19 months, that is, since we started elevator production in Simanovci, our production facility has reached its maximum capacity. For that reason, the expansion of production area will the company's priority in 2015 - says Banjesevic.

During 2014, Kleeman registered a turnover of EUR 6.8 million with exports accounting foe more than 50%. According to our interlocutor, 26% of all the goods exported went to Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, 14% was exported to Greece and other EU countries via Greece (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Great Britain, Poland, and others), while 17% of goods reached the Russian market.

- Our production capacity is currently big enough to satisfy the needs of the markets of Serbia and surrounding countries. We are doing our best to take advantage of free trade agreements that our country signed with Russia and other countries in the Eurasian Customs Union.

Banjesevic says that European sanctions definitely contributed to the parent company in Greece moving part of the production for Russia to Serbia. Now Kleemann Srbija delivers most of the production to its sister company Kleemann Lifts Russia.

In the previous two years, Kleemann has hired 45 workers in Serbia, mainly in the production sector (engineers, production workers, logistics...), while the construction of new facilities should create jobs for another 40 people.
New facilities in Simanovci, in which the company plans to invest EUR 1 million, will be producing equipment from the product portfolio of Kleemann Group - primarily electronically regulated electric lifts, CAN bus microprocessor systems for elevator control, and electric elevator modernization kits.

As eKapija was told, construction of new facilities is expected to be finished in May 2015.

Reputation in the market

For many years, Kleemann was building its reputation as one of the leading manufacturers of hydraulic equipment (passenger, freight and car elevators), expanding the product portfolio with time in line with market demands and technology development. Today, its core product is electric elevator without a machine room, featuring electronic VVVF regulation from the product range Atlas Family.

Partner network

Kleemann Liftovi in Serbia operates since 2005. In ten years, they built a unique network with more than 20 partner companies engaged in the assembling and servicing of elevators, supplying them with equipment on a regular basis, organizing presentations and training courses for them, delivering original spare parts and providing everyday support to them whenever needed.
Ivana Bezarevic

Kleemann Liftovi d.o.o. Šimanovci

EKAPIJA

Kleemann Liftovi Srbija

elevator production

Rajna Banjesevic

Kleemann Lifts Russia

electric elevators

CAN bus microprocessor systems for elevator control

hydraulic equipment

electric elevator modernization kit

exportation of elevators