Ready for new challenges Carboautomatyka

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.

Over 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 excellent 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

manufacturing activities in order to reduce its dependence on the mining industry. In doing so, it took particular advantage of strong demand in areas such as the road industry, environmental protection and heat engineering.

Carboautomatyka also manages to differentiate itself from the competition by focusing strongly on ongoing investments in both its technological back-up, as well as in the development of the working environment for its staff. The company’s manufacturing site now features a brand new production hall which enables workers to produce automatic systems much more efficiently. It also recently invested in developing its R&D department in order to improve the presence of cuttingedge solutions in its manufacturing offer.

Carboautomatyka SA manufactures a number of vital solutions for the mining industry. Underground products and systems include multi-outlet contact switches, smooth start-up devices, voltage frequency converters and outlet distribution fields, flame-proof transformer stations, mining switchboards, steering systems and scales for conveyor belts, as well as feeding and control modules, flame-proof CCTV systems, methane detectors and lighting. In addition, its Solaris product developed for use in the surface areas of mines is a complete system of inter-collaborating solutions of automatics for mechanical processing works. The company is also actively developing its non-mining areas of manufacturing, delivering automatic solutions such as emergency power supply systems, visual supervision systems and many other products used in environmental protection, the power industry, heat engineering, road works and others.

The company’s main clients include some of the largest players in the mining industry in Poland as well as in foreign markets, predominantly Ukraine, Russia and Vietnam. In the case of non-mining industries, the biggest customers tend to be municipal authorities, particularly city councils and civic offices.

In order to ensure the rapid distribution and installation of its systems, a dedicated logistical unit operates within Carboautomatyka.

Looking ahead

As a dynamic and rapidly growing manufacturer, Carboautomatyka has a very optimistic outlook on the future development of its operations across the various industrial branches in which it is already involved, as well as in new ones. Over the next few years it is planning to focus even more on nonmining industries, and hopes to add new industrial sectors to its already impressive and wide-ranging base of operations. n The Enterprise of Foundry Innovations Ltd

ul. Zakopiańska 73, 30-418 Kraków POLSKA tel.: +48 (12) 26-18-400 | fax: +48 (12) 26-65-478, +48 (12) 26-18-401 specodlew@specodlew.com.pl | www.specodlew.com.pl