Tigar Pirot starts production of 15,000 pairs of boots for Finnish army

Tigar Pirot has started producing 15,000 pairs of boots, worth EUR 660,000, for the Finnish army, the company announced today.

The job of producing summer and winter footwear for the Finnish army for 2018 and 2020 was won at a tender by Berner-Nokian, the strategic buyer of the Pirot company, but the footwear is to be produced in Serbia.

According to the general director of Tigar, Vladimir Ilic, these are special-purpose boots, resistant to chemicals and high temperatures.

The boots produced at Tigar are also expected to be used by the Swedish army in 2019, once the tender worth EUR 220,000 is realized.

As the Pirot plant announced, all production capacities for the current year are filled, and the expected earnings exceed EUR 12 million.

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