Karen Vardanyan is a young entrepreneur and head of a small production of metal-plastic windows and doors in Yelpin community of Vayots Dzor....
Sudha Srivastava/Karen Vardanyan.
Karen Vardanyan is a young entrepreneur and head of a small production of metal-plastic windows and doors in Yelpin community of Vayots Dzor region. “This is a family-run business, and my father and brother are actively engaged in it,” says Karen, “despite all our efforts, we faced challenges in running the production.
Our machine tools were outdated, and we often wasted a lot of time meeting the customers’ needs. We had to transfer our semi-finished products to the nearby communities for welding to finalize the orders”.
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Siramarg Hayrapetyan lives in Vayk community of the same region. She also operates a production of metal-plastic windows and doors. “Because of delipidated machine tools, we have faced serious issues related to the productivity as well as the quality of the products, which impeded the development of our production,” explains Siramarg, “and often we couldn’t make high-quality spare parts for our final products.”
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