The first disposable syringe facility in Romania, Sanevit Arad, which has not produced anything for more than a decade, was sold at auction, for the price of 1,680,000 euros, and the former employees received their outstanding salaries in full, the largest amount paid being 167,000 lei.
The former Sanevit employees told AGERPRES that they recently received their outstanding salaries that they had no longer hoped for after more than a decade, and the amounts were paid in full.
"We were recently notified that Sanevit was sold and we were told to go to the judicial liquidator's office to provide our bank account so that our outstanding salaries could be transferred. I left the factory in 2013, after working for more than a year without being paid. I had no hope that after so many years we would receive anything. I was surprised when I saw that we had received our full salaries, the exact amounts on the pay slip at that time. Although no updates, interest or other accessories were added, we are satisfied that we were paid," said a former engineer.
Representatives of the judicial liquidator confirmed to AGERPRES on Tuesday that the factory was sold at auction, after several years of attempts. The starting price was 1,600,000 euros, and the price paid was 1,680,000 euros.
According to the judicial liquidator, the buyer is a company from Romania, which did not specify its intentions regarding the acquired land and buildings.
The judicial liquidator specified that 40 former employees were paid, while only one was not found yet.
Sanevit has a land area of 30,245 square metres, located on a main artery in the Gradiste neighbourhood in Arad, and several buildings built, including a production hall of over 14,000 square metres.
The Arad syringe factory was unique in the mid-1990s and had an annual production capacity of 160-200 million syringes and 520 million medical needles. However, it never worked at more than 30% of capacity. Since 2013, Sanevit has not produced anything and was left with debts of approximately 8.4 million lei.
The Ministry of Economy, which owned the factory, had several attempts to privatise it, but there were no interested investors.
The Arad Court admitted, in 2021, the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings and the dissolution of the Sanevit Arad factory.
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