After German reunification, many businesses from Western Europe established manufacturing bases in the East to benefit from lower production costs. NIEROS Metal Tovarna opreme d.o.o. is an example that it can also work the other way round. Focused on custom-engineered stainless steel products, designed for equipping any industrial processing facility from the entrance to the exit, the Slovenian company emerged from a German manufacturer as the result of a management buy-out initiated in the aspiring Eastern European country.