Global order local delivery

With its global network, Nynas meets the strict requirements that the transformer manufacturer Končar Power Transformers Ltd has for reliable deliveries all over the world.

The Končar Group is a Croatian industrial company with its head office in Zagreb. The company, which was founded back in 1921, currently consists of 17 dependent companies and one affiliated company, and has around 4,000 employees. Annual consolidated net sales are over 400 million euros, of which half comes from exports. The Končar Group’s business activities include the production of equipment for the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy, as well as industrial and electric traction vehicles.

The affiliated company Končar Power Transformers Ltd, a 49/51 joint venture with Siemens, specialises in the development, design and production of large power, generation, transmission and industrial transformers.

Končar Power Transformers Ltd exports to about 80 countries all over the world, in recent years to places including Spain, South Africa, Northern Africa, Peru, Norway, Philippines, New Zealand, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). 

Nynas has been working in close collaboration with Končar Power Transformers Ltd for several decades. Deliveries of transformer oils will now take place within the framework of Nynas’ global agreement with Siemens. At a local level, the sales office in Graz, about 200 kilometres away from Zagreb, is responsible for contacts. 

“Končar Power Transformers Ltd is the ideal customer to utilise our core competence of Global Order Local Delivery (GOLD),” says Klaus Cichocki,General Manager Central Europe. “Thanks to Nynas’ global setup we can supply any type of oil to almost any place in the world by optimising not only the cost of logistics for the customer, and giving advice on the right choice of transformer oil to be used.”

Nynas’ global distribution network is an important competitive advantage. This is because the normal procedure for the kind of large transformers that Končar Power delivers to all corners of the world is that the oil is added when the transformer is installed at the final destination.

“Having cooperated for several decades, we consider Nynas as a partner having good price/performance ratio, giving us certainty in our overseas operations,” says Boris Kopjar, Purchasing & Logistic Manager of Končar Power Transformers Ltd.