TAILOR-MADE THERMAL SYSTEMS “Flexibility is what makes our offer unique. Each heat substation is produced on the basis of an individual design; tailor-made production provides a guarantee that it will be adjusted to the network parameters and internal installations. Our client can order everything that makes sense from a thermal point of view, and we can make everything, from the initial project up to the final installation and start-up,” says Slawomir Jarecki, vice president of Elektrotermex, based in Ostroleka, Poland, a leading producer of heat substations and thermal insulation of pipelines.
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lektrotermex was established in 1988, with 100 per cent Polish capital. Initially it employed a few people and was based in a small basement of a rented private detached house. The stockroom was in the garage. Now Elektrotermex employs 140 people and its headquarters and factory cover an area of two hectares, which is fully owned by the company. The production facility has an area of 3500m2. The company’s annual sales are estimated at more than PLN 45 million and profit for 2011 at more than PLN 2 million.
Specialists in compact heat substations A heat substation is a device which converts the water parameters in a municipal heating network into parameters appropriate for the installation of a heated facility. The heat distribution system allows for regulation of the parameters of water in the central heating installation, as well as their remote monitoring and reading. Elektrotermex, as the first such company in Poland, started production of compact heat substations. “It was 1992 when we proIndustry Europe 109