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Internal factors
ANALYSIS: HUMAN CAPITAL
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MUNICIPALITY
Positive factors Negative factors
Strengths:
• Low cost of Internet connection;
• Production of car batteries (no. 1 in
Romania – ROMBAT);
• Production of electric cables, plastic
materials (increasing production
volume);
• Production of PVC tubes (leading
position - TERAPLAST);
• Key businesses at county level
(ROMBAT- car battery; RAAL-car
radiators; TERAPLAST – PVC tubes;
ELECTROPLAST – cables) maintain
employment and have no major
problems
• Most companies belong to the
private sector (Romanian and mix
capital)
• Privatisation process finalised at
county level;
• Banking services are increasing (ebanking,
international banking, card
transfer);
• Foreign investments such as LEONI
and Roseyarns attract other potential
investors in the area;
• Housing construction (e.g. ANL)
contributes to solving social
problems;
• 40ha available for industrial activities;
Most of the city is connected to the
water supply, sewerage, gas,
telephone and cable networks.
Weaknesses:
• Local industrial products are not
international brands;
• Low competitivity on the
international market for products
with high added value;
• Technological capability reaches
only 4 th level (basic production, with
eventual minor modifications) out of
a possible 7;
• Lack of innovative production
capacities (products with high
added value or high innovative
capacity for re-designing to the
highest international standards);
• Information technology is used for
middle-level production;
• Lack of competitive engineering
programmes for key processes and
optimal management of resources
through the system of non-quality
costs
• Only a few companies have
implemented the ISO 9000 quality
management standards and there
is no interest in implementing the
EFQM, with the sole exception of
SC ROMBAT SA;
• The infrastructure needed to
establish business incubators,
technological and industrial parks is
not properly developed.
• Weak communication infrastructure
(roads, networks)
• Ecological problems: lack of
ecological waste deposit.
• Research, innovation and
technological transfer are
insufficiently developed compared
with requirements. The real
collaboration between university
and industry in research and
development domain is not
sufficiently active.
• Lack of software companies at
county level;
• The top 10 industrial sectors
developed in the city (clothing,