Tiger Dej sees 20% higher turnover

Dej-based Tiger Somes, a maker of packaging paper expects turnover to reach 6.7 million euros in 2004, 20% higher than in 2003, given that it had already exceeded the entire 2003 output by 800 tonnes by the end of November. “We will conclude the year with an output of 5,600 tonnes of coated paper,” Mircea Itu, Tiger Somes chief executive told ZF Transilvania. The company makes two types of (polyethylene) coated paper: personalised and non-personalised, with the latter accounting for 70% of the total output of the company. More than 60% of the products go to European markets, such as Italy, France, Germany, Slovenia, Austria and Poland, while the rest is sold in Romania. Over 95% of Tiger Somes products are sold to the foods industry for packaging of sweets, sugar and coffee. ZF