POLAND

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POLAND

• ALUMINIUM FINISHING MARKET
• WHILE ENTERING EUROPE
• VALENCIA SEPTEMBER 2004
• Agnieszka Wojsa Cosentino Metra Poland /
  Qualipol

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GENERAL INFORMATIONS JUNE 2004

• Population 38.600.000
• Surface 312.700 km2
• GDP growth forecast 6,4
• Inflation forecast 2,2
• Unemployment rate 19,5
• Gross monthly wages 539
• Exchange rate 1 4,40 PLN
• Export 2003 53.600.000.000
• Import 2003 68.000.000.000

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POLAND ENTERING EUROPE

• 8 of the surface and 8,5 of the population of
  Europe 25
• 62 of polish commercial exchange within Europe
  25
• Open borders cost and time of transport
  dropping down
• Natural intermediary towards Est (location and
  language)
• PHARE, EQUAL and other funds for polish
  enterprises
• Large foreign and local investments in the
  infrastructure
• Progressing privatization and competitivity on
  the market
• Low cost and high quality of workmanship on all
  levels

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ALUMINIUM MARKET

• Producers (extrusion)
• Kety Group
• Sapa Poland
• Hydro Aluminium Poland
• Final
• Yearly production
• 45.000 tonns

• Architectural systems present
• Metalplast
• Yawal
• Reynaers
• Ponzio
• Schueco
• Metra
• Sapa
• Others
• Yearly sales
• 10.000 tonns

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ALUMINIUM FINISHING MARKET

• Powder coating plants
• METRA POLAND Qualicoat Licence 1500
• ALURAL POLSKA Qualicoat Licence 1501
• YAWAL Qualicoat Licence 1502
• SAPA POLAND Qualicoat Licence 1503
• PONZIO POLSKA Qualicoat Licence 1504
• ABC COLOREX Qualicoat Licence 1505
• PULVER Qualicoat Licence 1506
• SMS PRO Qualicoat Licence 1507
• METALPLAST Qualicoat Licence 1508
• GELP Qualicoat Licence 1509
• GELTZ Licence applied for

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ALUMINIUM FINISHING MARKET

• Powder coating plants (cont.)
• Total number around 1.000 plants, all horizontal,
  most of them quite small
• More than 70 of plants work mostly steel, it
  leaves 300 plants coating aluminium
• Capacity over 4.000 m2 / day (3 shifts) only 10
  plants
• Total capacity of production around 20.000.000
  m2 / year
• Realized production around 60 of the total
  capacity
• Unfortunately a lot of small manufacturers still
  without chemical pretreatment of aluminium !!!

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ALUMINIUM FINISHING MARKET

• Anodizing plants
• METALPLAST Qualanod Licence 1800
• SAPA POLAND Qualanod Licence 1801
• FINAL Qualanod Licence 1802
• EFFECTOR Licence applied for
• Total number around 40 plants, most of them
  small
• Capacity over 4.000 m2 / day (3 shifts) only 4
  plants
• Total capacity of production around 8.000.000 m2
  / year
• Realized production around 80 of the total
  capacity

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QUALIPOL ASSOCIATION

• Polish Association for the companies
• involved in the surface treatment of
• aluminium was founded in 2001.
• Today it counts 25 regular plus 4
• honorary members and it represents
• quite a strong lobby for improving
• the quality of coating and anodizing.
• More and more technical
• specifications made in Poland refer
• to Qualicoat and Qualanod as
• necessary standards to be fulfilled on
• prestigiuous building sites.