1989–1993 The skills outlived the plantZručnosti prežili podnik

After November 1989 the state firms were broken up or sold, and private trade came back to a town that had lived by trade for seven hundred years. VUMA itself did not survive the change, but the engineering skills it had trained did, and those skills are the reason foreign manufacturers later chose this town rather than another one.Po novembri 1989 štátne podniky rozdelili alebo predali a do mesta, ktoré sedemsto rokov žilo z obchodu, sa obchod vrátil. Samotná VUMA zmenu neprežila, no strojárske zručnosti, ktoré vychovala, áno — a práve pre ne si zahraniční výrobcovia neskôr vybrali toto mesto, a nie iné.