READY FOR NEW CHALLENGES Celebrating 35 years of its operations, Carboautomatyka S.A. is one of Poland’s most highly specialised manufacturers of automation, control and wiring systems. The company delivers cutting-edge solutions for home-based and foreign customers from the mining industry, as well as other sectors of the economy, including environmental protection, heat engineering and metallurgy. The company is also the leading business unit within the larger Carboautomatyka Group.
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ver the years, Carboautomatyka’s production offer has been consistently extended. This has allowed it to establish a strong position in the mining industry and at the same time transfer its know-how and technologies to other areas of the economy. At the same time, the very strong demand for its range of products and services has enabled the company to deliver, install and successfully begin operating automatic systems in a number of very large projects. Crucial to the excel-
lent achievements and growth is the cooperation with leading suppliers; companies such as Specodlew Ltd and many others guarantee the highest quality of the supply chain. The cooperation with Specodlew is very important for Carboautomatyka, as this important supplier manufactures, with a full technical preparation and machining, investment castings, sand castings and gravity die castings. Specodlew castings are made from grey cast iron, alloyed cast iron, ductile cast iron (including ADI), cast steel (carbon and alloyed), copper, aluminium and other alloys of independent metals. The supplier specialises in castings resistant to abrasion and heat, as well as in castings made from “pure copper”. Around 25 per cent of the overall production of Specodlew is exported. The company operates its own construction department, model prototyping and tools workshops. It uses CAD/CAM system and has ISO 9001:2009 certificate. Across the entire Carboautomatyka Group there are nearly 1100 employees and in 2012
the Group reached PLN 447 million in turnover. Over 20 per cent of the overall production reaches many different export markets, including Argentina, Vietnam and South Africa. Amongst other markets, the company is very well-known in countries such as Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Bosnia & Herzegovina. In all of its export markets Carboautomatyka works successfully with local partners and delivers excellent automatic solutions for a range of industrial branches.
Robust market presence Despite competitive pressures in the mining and non-mining industrial branches, the company manages to outperform its rivals by operating in a highly efficient manner and working closely with its customers. Around three years ago the majority of clients, 90 per cent, were companies in the mining industry. Today, the situation is entirely different, as less than a half of the customers come from the mining industry. Carboautomatyka has thus significantly diversified other areas of its
