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8 9 News Providers for an aerospace center in South America Proinvest Group has reached major age One of the special orders honored in 2018 by the Proinvest Group was supplying a metal structure used in building the rocket launch-ramp facilities for Ariane 6 rockets. Our costumer was the British company Jewers Doors LTD. The project coordinated by the European Space Agency (ESA) at the French Guyana Space Center will mark the use of Ariane 6 rockets starting in 2020, replacing the previous rockets model, Ariane 5. On 20 September 2018, Proinvest Group marked 18 years of activity. Established in 2000 by Vasile and Petronela Sandu, the company has supported its appreciation in a spirit of continuous improvement, knowing a strong and rapid development, currently reaching 500 employees and a turnover of 30 million euros. Performance awards With an initial activity profile dedicated to constructions design, the company experienced an accelerated growth with the expansion of its production activity, expansion allowed by an advantageous moment in accessing development credits. After the production of PVC joinery began in 2003, and in 2005 expanded to metallic structures, the access to new financing allowed the development of projects worth over 30 million euros. In the gala organized by the Construction Magazine and the Iasi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Proinvest Group was again among the laureates. At the moment, Proinvest Group is a multiproduct company, with multiple manufacturing facilities specialized in steel processing, from simple components for construction up to tooling and precision mechanical components. On May 15, 2018, Proinvest Group received the EURO-Construction Trophy for the promoting of innovative solutions and for outstanding contributions to the development of the construction and installation sector at the International Conference on Sustainable Construction and Energy Efficiency in Bucharest. The new headquarter will be completed in 2019 New investments include a new industrial park The investment program of Proinvest Group is entering a new phase. "By 2020 we have ongoing and in planning investments of 12 million euros. We have five factories and we started building two more. The five manufacturing plants that we have at the moment are in Pascani and two more will be built, one in Stolniceni Prajescu (5 km from Pascani) and one in Pascani", Vasile Sandu, General Manager of Proinvest Group, mentioned. The Stolniceni Prajescu factory will be part of an industrial park to be developed on a 20 hectares area, acquired in 2018. This unit will have 3 sandwich panels production lines and an annual production capacity of 3 million square meters of mineral wool and PUR / PIR sandwich panels. At a later moment, all construction components production, as well as new investments for the development of this range of products, will be relocated in the new industrial park in Stolniceni Prajescu, where we have easier access to the transport routes. The second factory planned to be built in Pascani will produce chromed bars, the first phase of this investment being scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of 2019. The capacity of the new chromed bars factory will be 20.000 tons per year. Proinvest Group was again among the laureates of the Business Environment Gala, organized by the Iasi Chamber of Commerce and Industry on November 1, 2018. In the National Top of the Industry - Large Enterprises category, our company was ranked first, earning the Diploma of Excellence due to the fact we were on the podium every time for the last 10 editions of the event. The husbands Vasile and Petronela Sandu For 2019, we also have proposed building a new workspace for Proinvest Goup staff and collaborators. These new investments involve the construction of an administrative headquarter, a canteen with a capacity of 100 seats and a Steel Excellence Center (SEC).