Arsenal JSCo

From 03.12.1999 Arsenal is already a Joint-Stock Company with broad-scope, versatile activity. The new European and Euro-Atlantic orientation of the Republic of Bulgaria determines the new directions in manufacturing and trade. The company's quick adaptation towards the new market conditions insist for implementation and manufacture of new products. Concordant with products that traditionally had been implemented into production, in the time period of 1989-99 there had been developed and implemented new production technology and articles: • Sporting and hunting self-loading rifles; • New modifications of machine guns, assault rifles and pistols in NATO calibres; • The "Shipka" submachine-gun; • 40mm "Avalanche" Multi-shot Grenade Launcher of the revolver type; • 60mm and 81mm mortars /developed by Arsenal experts under the license of the Austrian company "Hinterberger"/ • 60mm mortar bomb; • New primer-detonators and igniter primers; • New type of powders and pyrotechnic devices; • The GH S&F-1-01 and GH S&F-13 sound and flash hand grenades - means for police and anti-terrorist operations against organized crime; • Ammunition in the NATO calibres; • New modifications of milling machines, vertical drilling machines, etc. All developments for manufacture of special purpose products, manufactured by the experts of Arsenal, are protected at the Bulgarian Patent Office as objects of intellaectual property. That is why the products bear the trade mark "Arsenal", which is an internationally protected trade mark. The product range of new and versatile products is being expanded and enriched constantly. Through the many years of its existence the "Arsenal" company have designed, implemented and manufactured production with various intended uses that in the years that followed have turned into mainline produce for other newly-created enterprises of the national industry /accumulators, diesel engines, electric motors, radiators, springs, synthetic diamond, etc/. Thus, Arsenal, besides being a founding father of the Bulgarian defense industry, also sets the grounds for the development of a number of enterprises in the country that had taken an important place and that still hold their place in the national machine building. In the present day the "Arsenal" JSCo is a large scale manufacturer of small arms and artillery systems, ammunition, powders, primers, pyrotechnic products, sporting and hunting rifles and the respective ammunition for them, hard-alloy inserts and tools, universal milling machines, CNC metal-cutting machine tools, casts, die formings, etc. Arsenal - an enterprise with traditions in the product design, manufacturing, engineering and trade with civil and special purpose articles.