News - 2011

Marko Rupar, Mayor of the Municipality of Cerknica, and Janez Škrabec, Director of the RIKO company, have signed a contract for the project "Collection and treatment of waste water in the basin of the Ljubljanica, central wastewater treatment plant in the Municipality of Cerknica" today in Cerknica.

The first joint meeting of the Business Councils of Slovenia and Russia, which was established this year with a view to consolidating solid economic ties between Slovenia and Russia, was held today at the headquarters of the Avtovaz company in Togliatti.

We at Riko have been awarded the public tender for constructing the inclined elevator in the Planica Sports Centre, which is undergoing general renovation and infrastructural extension. With its integrated approach to engineering, we will supply the technology, construction and installation of the inclined elevator. It will enable talented ski jumpers to benefit from enhanced training on the five ski-jumps.

The Riko company has, thanks to its long-standing experience in the production of ecological equipment, re-entered into a new contract for the supply of the universal presses for packaging and cutting metal scrap with the Ukrainian company URLOMPROM Kyiv. This is considered as Ukraine's leading company in the field of collection and recovery of secondary materials.

This year, Riko is successfully penetrating the promising Ukrainian market. Our partner alliance with prestigious Ukrainian companies such as TURBOATOM and HYDROSILA has been complemented by the Volchansk Aggregate Plant VAZ. Riko will supply VAZ with technological equipment for the mechanical treatment of castings.

Riko will be in charge of the construction of a Regional waste management centre CEROZ II. phase, located in Hrastnik (in the area of Unično), to be used by three municipalities of Zasavje – Litija, Zagorje, Hrastnik and the municipality Radeče. It shall be handed over to the client by the end of 2013.

Riko will provide Ukrainian Turboatom with a sandblasting machine VK 4500 x 3500 MS. The contract of purchase was signed by Janez Škrabec, Director of the company Riko d.o.o., and Viktor Georgevič Subotin, General manager of the company Turboatom, at the headquarters of the company in Kharkiv. The honorary consul of Slovenia in Kharkiv, Mr. Anatolij Mihajlovič Bondarenko, was also present at the signing and he is known for encouraging business cooperation between Slovenia and Ukraine.

Riko, along with partners Granit d.d. Slovenska Bistrica and Drava vodnogospodarsko podjetje d.d. Ptuj, have been selected and hired as contractors for the project CERO Slovenska Bistrica. Our responsibilities entail planning, purchasing of equipment, construction, a test run of the facility, its handing over for operations and management of the project. The construction works have begun today.

Today the mayor of the and Riko d.o.o. CEO Janez Škrabec signed a contract to construct a wastewater treatment plan in Radeče.

This year, Riko CEO Janez Škrabec ranked second among the top Slovene CEOs. The reputation survey is conducted every year by the Kline partner agency on a sample of 800 representatives of the Slovene business world, and evaluates the performance of large, medium-sized and small companies as well as of their CEOs.