Savatech Group is a highly specialized rubber compound manufacturer with over 90 years of experience. It has four manufacturing sites and six sales offices serving customers in over 90 countries. The document discusses Savatech's product range including rubber compounds, their market position as a leading supplier in Slovenia and the Balkans, and their strengths in R&D and quality management systems to meet customer requirements. Savatech has a history dating back to 1920 and has undergone ownership changes over the decades to become part of the CGS Group in 2013.

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Savatech Group
Programe Elastomers – Rubber compounds

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Introduction to Savatech Group
 More than 90 years of rubber knowledge and tradition
 Highly specialized niche player for technical rubber products
 Serving a broad range of customers in more than 90 countries
with four manufacturing sites and six sales offices
 Providing a diversified product portfolio:
 Rubber compounds
 Offset printing blankets
 Environmental protection and rescue
 Conveyor belts
 Rubber profiles
 Moulded products
 Tires for scooters, mopeds, motorcycles
 Rubber rollers
Manufacturing Sites Sales / Representative Offices
Munich
WarsawLondon
Prague
Kranj
Moscow
Zagreb
Yaroslavl
Ptuj
Daytona
Beach, USA

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Walk Through Time
1920 In Kranj the company ATLANTA IMPORTS AND EXPORTS was formed.
1921 The company Atlanta was renamed to a new company VULKAN.
1931 The Kranj company became the property of the Vienna firm Semperit.
1940 The sole owner of the tyre factory in Kranj became the firm Continental.
1946 Nationalisation and a change of the name to SAVA Rubber Products.
1956 Official opening of Plant II in Gaštej.
1967 Signing of the licence agreement with Semperit.
1972 Sava / Semperit Car Tyres commenced production.
1997 Signing of the Joint Venture Agreement between the Sava corporation and
the Goodyear concern for production of tyres.
2002 Sava d.d. organized rubber production in SAVATECH d.o.o.
2013 Savatech d.o.o. became a part of the CGS Group.

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 Compounds on the basis of natural rubber and
synthetic rubbers: EPDM, SBR, BR, NBR, CR,
CSM, CIIR, HNBR, etc.
 Base material for further production process
Elastomers
Product Range
Applications
 Automotive industry
 Home appliances
 Building industry
 Nutritional industry
 Transportation
 Applications within electro industry
 Processing technologies
Market Position
 Leading market position in Slovenia
 Strong market position in Ex-YU
 Several notable customers in EU
 Strong R&D support
 Well equipped central laboratory with highly
skilled personnel
 Knowledge enriched by experience and
tradition
 Rubber compounds to meet customers’
requirements
 Implementation of new materials
 Steady process development
Strengths
Development

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Rubber compound production
Slovenia
Germany
Croatia
Serbia
Great Britan
Switzerland
Poland
Bolgaria
other
Sales Breakdown by Country 2014 Sales to external customers (tonnes)
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Compound mixing technology
Raw material handling
 Every raw material is checked according to
the certificate and specification before
unloading
 Material tracking with a by BAR code
 Material tracking through the SAP
management program
 Constant warehouse temperature control

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Compound mixing technology
Automatic weighing and dosing system
 Every formulation for daily plan is transferred from the network to a
mixing line and weighing stations
 Rubber bales and small chemicals are dosed by a conveyor belt
with a double weighing check and a bar code check
 Small chemicals are prepared in a special chamber with semi-
automatic weighing stations
 Carbon black and white fillers are weighed and dosed by the
automatic system from big-bag
 Plasticizers are dosed automatically from the underground tanks

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Compound mixing technology
Rubber compound mixing lines
 Mixing lines L1 (VIC 95), L2 (VIC 215), M48 (Banbury 230), V45
(double roll mill)
 Mixing lines consist of mixer, one or two double roll mills and batch-
off lines
 VIC Variable intermeshing clearance mixers for better dispersion
 Calender mixing line for production of calendered sheets

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Compound mixing technology
Automatic control of mixing procedures
 Formulations, mixing procedures and parameters are
automatically transferred with a daily plan to mixing lines.
 Fully automatic mixing procedures.
 Mixing procedure is optimized by analyzing of mixing
histograms which are valuable data about process
efficiency.

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Compound mixing technology
Compound releasing and warehousing
 compound is controlled according to control plan set by a
compounding team
 first control for each mixing batch is a rheometer curve
(MDR), measured just next to the mixing line
 compound is stored in a mixing room is until released on the
basis of laboratory measurements.
 released compound is transferred to sales warehouse,
 each pallet with a released compound is equipped with a
specification paper according to internal or customer
requirements.

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Research & Development – Overview
Research & Development
Central R&D
- Central laboratory
- Strategic projects
- Implementation of new
development tools
- Indok
- Development cooperation
- Project management
- Problem solving activities
- Training of employees
R&D in business
units
- Development of new
products
- Technologies

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Quality Management
Overview
 Obtained ISO TS 16949, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and
OHSAS 18001 certifications in accordance with high
environmental standards
 Established internal quality management procedures
 User manual: control technological process
 Statistic process control
 Trend charts and pareto distribution
 Classification regulation
 Material failure and effect summary
 All data to operators at one info point
 4M analysis method
 5WHY analysis method
 Work procedure movies
 Triangular analysis
 4M cause and effect diagram

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