Austria, Italy, Sweden, Norway, the USA, Russia, Turkey and Thailand. The majority of the company’s products are used in small hydro power plants, wind power plants, co-generation units and reserve resources. Around half of the company’s production serves the growing renewable resources market. Chief executive David Bečvář explains: “We provide comprehensive solutions for energy production and energy consumption. We are experts at purpose-built solutions, from single piece orders to batch production.” The company’s competitive advantages lie in its flexibility, high added value and high quality products and services for a reasonable price. Mr Bečvář adds, “We are renowned for the high quality and high parameters of our products but mainly for our proactive relationship with our customers.” The company operates in the construction sector and production for green sources of energy (100 kVA– 20 MVA generators,
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components, maintenance and repairs). For the traditional energy sector it produces generators and components for diesel sets and reserve resources (100 kVA– 20 MVA). It also manufactures for rolling mills and iron works (100–1500 kW motors and drives), for electrical traction and for shipbuilding. It produces components, generators, engines and drives (100–20 MVA) for mining and other industries. Moreover the company provides installation, reliable maintenance, repairs, upgrading and redesign.
Potential in the East The company exports 80 per cent of its output. The generators for small hydro power plants are sold mainly in Norway, Italy and Austria where there is a high percentage of hydro power plants (in Norway over 99 per cent). The company also focuses on nonEuropean markets e.g. Turkey and North America and its management sees high
potential in the Russian market. It has signed an agreement to deliver 56 generators with a total output over 130 MW for the building, redesign and upgrade of small hydro power plants over the next seven years. The producer has become the sole generator supplier for these plants. It will deliver 27 generators with a total output of 59 MW between 2013 and 2016 plus a further 29 hydro generators with the output of 78.5 MW between 2016 and 2020. The company is going to enlist a local Russian producer in localising future potential projects. Moreover, the Czech manufacturer is discussing the delivery of special testing stations for the heavy transport machinery sector.
Investing in the future The latest news is the opening of a new prototype centre for the production and testing of generators and engines with an output of up to 20 MW. The centre was developed