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ORATEL was created in Poland in 1993 and is today the largest manufacturer of low-voltage appliances in the country. The company is the market leader in its sector of activities both in terms of the volume of production and number of staff, as well as the widest possible offer of standardised products. “We continuously modernise our production facilities in order to ensure better flows of materials, achieve better parameters of cooperation with customers and always guarantee timely deliveries of orders,” says Małgorzata Żytkowiak, sales director at NORATEL in Poland. “Our growth is of course part of the ongoing development of the entire international NORATEL Group and as a result we are delighted to be working with leading global clients who need to work with a global
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company. Our Polish company, for example, works with renowned producers such as Siemens, particularly its medical operations area, and GE. We strive to always meet customers’ expectations and we understand the need to invest in gaining new excellent staff, both technical and sales.”
Investment in all areas of operations The company is currently working on introducing a fourth production hall to its factory, which will increase the manufacturing space from 8,000 m2 to 10,000 m2. This activity is dictated not least by the fact that NORATEL is producing increasingly larger items which in turn require a larger manufacturing space. “The machine park is being continuously upgraded, with newer and faster machines, while at the same time, since July this year,
NORATEL Ltd in Poland belongs to the international NORATEL Group, specialising in a wide and impressive range of transformers and reactors. The Group brings together 16 companies in 13 countries with nearly 3000 employees. Piotr Sadowski writes about the most recent activities and developments in the Polish unit.
we are implementing the Lean Manufacturing policy to ensure a better overall efficiency and effectiveness of all of our processes,” explains Ms Żytkowiak. “We are proud to be offering a really wide range of products and therefore are always working on introducing new products to meet our clients’ needs. For the Polish market specifically, our latest addition includes low-voltage current transformers, for the production of which we have hired a significant number of specialist technical staff. For our foreign customers, we have embarked on developing individual long-series constructions which have a significantly increased operating life.” Over the period 2011-12 NORATEL has also been working on ensuring that any bottlenecks in the production of transformers are minimised. As Ms Żytkowiak explains,
