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Vipo as is a Slovak-based manufacturer of tire making machinery (truck and car tire bead winding lines, cutting devices, winding-up systems, testing devices, control and visualization systems), and carbon brush machining and assembling machinery (carbon brush machining and assembling lines, brush machining centers, thin carbon plate machining lines). The Company is also active in the fields of rubber chemistry, chemistry of adhesives, gluing technologies and rubber waste processing, and produces hot-melt adhesives, adhesives based on polymer solutions in organic solvents, vulcanizing cements, planar materials made of waste rubber crumb for creating elastic floorings and noise insulation. The Company sells its products nationally and internationally, in the Czech Republic, Russia, Belorussia, Poland, Germany, Iran, Tunis, Ukraine, France, Brazil, Argentina, Malaysia, India, South Africa. As of December 31, 2010, Rosfamily sro held a 29.39% stake in Vipo as.