ANOTHER ADAMS INTERVIEW

(automatic translation with many faults) Hospodárských noviny Ronald Adams: We’re at the bottom. Improving hopefully come next year Ronald Adams, Managing Director of Tatra Koprivnice Mining companies again have the money, says Tatra director Ronald Adams. And it was, he said his company expected. Prices of raw materials and demand for them has increased so that the miners are increasingly bids for trucks from Koprivnice. The drop in orders to halt and Adams hopes that the Tatra could start slowly returning to the numbers produced two years ago. Then for nearly three thousand cars, this year it will be a mere thousand, one fifth of which is yet for the Czech army. HN: How to hit your trip to Abu Dhabi? Together with the army we have now completed the test truck’s middle class. I think it went well. We see great potential there now orders. HN: But there still pushing and your competitors, right? Globally against us is Mercedes and MAN, but the position where we have a very good. Since the late nineties, I go there in 1100 of our cars. HN: How many cars are interested in Emirates? Then 200 to 400 The last moment will depend on how much they have budgeted money. Get a contract in the military is important to us. How once we have the commercial sphere soon followed. When the car is good enough to him to buy the army, so it is good for us. HN: Do you feel there problems of the current Dubai? Nope. Abu Dhabi’s capital, because they have oil in Dubai do not have it. HN: Where else now looking for new customers? The opportunity we see for example in Saudi Arabia and Libya. There Tatra know well. Sell, where natural resources, because there will always be money. They are periods when prices are down and sources of finance are lower, but generally it is a market to which we focus. Price of oil has grown to a level at which companies can invest. I think that it now begins to improve. In addition we are interested in the Middle East and South America. There we plan to expand next year. HN: How do you try to fight the competition? In any market we have not lost their position. In addition to seeking new markets and new customers we need to reduce costs. But we must also prepare the company that nevyrobíme three thousand cars, but only a thousand. But again, be flexible, so if we had more orders could again grow. Lots of people work 80 percent of working time. She works three days and two days off. HN: Because of the savings will not produce said engines. Engines will probably make the time, but sometimes use water-cooled engines, and those we think about it. We need them more as it enters new markets and there have no idea what it is air-cooled engine. But we can produce more cheaply than you can buy. HN: Going to some parts that you have not yet produced their own, start to buy more? Not so easy. We need to find out who and how much it can do, then make a wagon ride on a sample circuit. CZECH TEXT: http://hn.ihned.cz/c1-39472530-uz-jsme-na-dne-zlepseni-snad-prijde-pristi-rok