The Ambassador of Japan to Serbia, Mr Akira Imamura, visited Smederevo today.
After a tour of the company “Mayekawa SRB” and talks with its management, Mayor Jasmina Vojinović and the President of the City Assembly, Milan Perić, held a reception for the distinguished guest in the Blue Hall of the City of Smederevo.
Ambassador Akira Imamura was accompanied by Tsuyoshi Hatanda, General Manager of “Mayekawa SRB” LLC, Shotaro Tanaka, technical support engineer, and the director of the factory in Smederevo, Žikica Andrejević.
Thanking him for the visit, the Mayor of Smederevo, Jasmina Vojinović, stressed that the City has very good cooperation with this well-known Japanese company, which has been operating in the industrial zone since 2019.
It currently employs 118 workers from Smederevo, and according to the factory’s General Manager, Mr Tsuyoshi Hatanda, an expansion of production capacity is planned, as “Mayekawa SRB” has been operating successfully in Smederevo for 6 years. An indicator of its success is also the expansion of its investment plan, including through a greenfield investment.
In addition to the initial investment through the purchase of land, another plot has been purchased in the industrial park of the free zone and the construction of a second production hall has been completed.
The “Mayekawa Group” was founded back in 1924 and this year will mark its centenary, it was said at the reception, among other things.
The talks with the guests also covered the projects implemented by the Embassy of Japan in Serbia and establishing stronger cooperation between the City, the Embassy and “Mayekawa SRB”.
Ambassador Akira Imamura recalled that the Embassy of Japan had previously provided a donation to the Textile-Technical and Agricultural School “Despot Đurađ” for the purchase of a tractor and textile-processing equipment.
He congratulated the new city leadership on their election to office and wished them success in their work.
