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Vatra Takes On Philips

16 November, 1999 - 00:00

Its most promising trend is manufacturing lighting equipment for stadiums. Vatra’s President Roman Yaremchuk says the important thing is that the company carries out such orders only in return for cash, even though barter deals make up over 40% of its turnover.

In fact, only five firms in the world make powerful stadium reflectors. Vatra is the only one in the CIS and Eastern Europe. For the first time its products appeared at Ukraine’s central stadium when preparing for the 1980 Olympics. At about the same time lighting equipment was shipped off to Moscow, St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), and Minsk. Quite recently Vatra searchlights were lit at the Ukraine Stadium in Lviv.

Beginning in 1998, Vatra, jointly with Philips, has been vying in a tender for additional lighting equipment for the National Stadium of Ukraine. Vatra’s GO-06 new generation searchlights match Philips analogs in every respect. In addition, their design allows them to consume three times less electricity without undermining efficiency. Vatra’s chief technologist informed The Day that their searchlights can produce 1,400 luces, while FIFA and UEFA standards call for a minimum of 800 luces

Unfortunately, Vatra finds it hard to win such tenders even at home. Of course, if the company could supply equipment to the Olympic complex and Central Army Club in Kyiv, Locomotive in Donetsk, and get through to five major Russian sports arenas (in Sochi, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Maikop, and Nalchik), as originally planned, this would give Vatra more than one-third of its real money, Mr. Yaremchuk is convinced.

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