Oct 20, 2005. /Lesprom Network/. Riko Company (Slovenia) plans to construct woodworking factories in Sverdlovsk region, Russia, region administration press-service reported. Sverdlovsk region governor Eduard Rossel has met Slovenian delegation headed by Riko CEO Janes Shkrabez. Joint-ventures creation perspectives were discussed during the meeting. Tourinskaya match factory’s and Alapaevsky machine-tool plant’s empty buildings and unfinished pulp producing mill in Novoljalinsky district were considered as construction places. Janes Shkrabez noted that local raw materials will be used in production process. Company’s sales office and service centre will be open in Ekaterinburg. Riko Company produces equipment and components for machinery construction, motor-car and aircraft industries, processes wood and builds wooden apartment houses.