UVIS (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) has announced its business transformation implemented by combining its manufacturing, service, and trading assets into a single integrated structure: an international holding Centravis Ltd. The newly born holding includes production capacities of Nikopol stainless pipe mill and an extensive network of trade companies and agents in Western Europe, USA, and CIS countries. Primary assets of the holding are located in Ukraine and managed by Atanasovs’ family. A long-term development program foresees that by 2010 Centravis is to shift from regional leaders to the world producers of seamless stainless pipes. Total investment into production facilities and new technologies of Centravis holding will amount to USD 115 million in 2007-2008.This will allow to increase production capacities twofold or more, improve the product quality and expand assortment. Manufacture modernization will be backed up by IT infrastructure reinforcement, warehouse system and regional trading net enhancement, ERP- and CRM-systems implementation as well as TQM introduction according to ISO 9000. This will help to create an effective and transparent logistic, sales and servicing system exclusively customer-oriented.
