Fischer Profil, the German manufacturer of wall and roof elements for industrial buildings, has teamed up with local company Horizont-Ivanov to build a factory for steel profiles in Pleven, Northern Bulgaria. The investment will be the German company`s first in Eastern Europe. The 10 mln euro factory will be sited in the Pleven industrial zone on 10,000 sq m. It will have an annual capacity of 100,000 tons. The assembly of the first three production lines will begin in mid-`08 with trial testing scheduled to begin in late September. A further two lines will be added at a later stage.