Infrastruktura - Środowisko - Energia
Dodatek lobbingowy do "RZECZPOSPOLITEJ".
9 września 2008 r.

po polsku

Construction of modern brown coal mines in Poland

Capacities of scientific, designing and technical support structures

Janusz Bojczuk, CEO of Poltegor-projekt sp. z o.o. Wroclaw
Szymon Modrzejewski, Director of Poltegor-Instytut Wroclaw

Poland holds specialised scientific, designing and production resources in the sphere of machines and equipment for strip mining. The scientific institutions include for instance: AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Wroclaw University of Technology, Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice and technical universities training staff for mines as well as many scientific institutions working for the brown coal sector. The designing institutions include: Poltegor-projekt Sp. z o.o. and Poltegor-Instytut in Wroclaw, Central Mining Institute in Katowice, Polish Geological Institute in Warsaw, SKW in Zgorzelec and Institute of Power Engineering in Warsaw.

Poltegor-projekt and Poltegor-Instytut and SKW are leaders in designing complete mines as well as machines and equipment for such mines. The companies have designed and continue to participate in expansion of existing brown coal mines in Poland. After 2000 Poltegor-projekt was involved in designing of brown coal mines "Neyveli" in India, Mine "Amindeo" and Mine "Ptolemaida" in Greece and Mine "Kolubara" in Serbia.

With respect to the construction of machines and equipment, the chief players in the sector are: FUGO S.A. in Konin, KOPEX-FAMAGO S.A. in Zgorzelec, FAMAK S.A. in Kluczbork, Sempertrans S.A. Belchatow, Fabryka Tasm Transporterowych Stomil Wolbrom S.A., Huta Stalowa Wola S.A., MAAG GEAR ZAMECH in Elblag, ZPR PGE KWB Belchatow, ELEKTROBUDOWA S.A. Katowice and many other companies manufacturing equipment, parts and sub-assemblies.

The designing and production potential of the Polish industry producing for the needs of brown coal based fuel and energy sector is manifested in the fact that Polish designers and engineers have constructed a largest European mine and power plant in Belchatow. Polish machines and equipment operate in many countries all over the world. For example, our presence in India, Greece and Serbia. In India Poltegor-projekt, within a consortium with KOPEX-FAMAGO Zgorzelec and the Indian company McNally Bharat, designed and delivered two excavators BWE 700 and two dumping conveyors 4420.61 and in collaboration with FUGO Konin - a special caterpillar conveyor TC-2000 used to carry drive stations of conveyor belts and a packet (7 pieces) of conveyors B=1600 and 2400. For Greece and Serbia, Poltegor-projekt and FUGO Konin in 2000 and 2005 delivered 26 complete conveyors B-1600, 2000 and 2400 and a caterpillar conveyor TC-2000Y. Polish engineers design and build machines and equipment for brown coal industry - for mining and power engineering. Modernisation of power plants related to reduction of emissions of dust, SO2 and CO2 is performed by Polish companies (RAFAKO S.A. in Raciborz). Recently machines and equipment built for brown coal mines are not inferior in any respect to world known companies.

Examples are bucket ladder excavators, designed and constructed by Polish engineers, series of types KWK. Recently a new excavator was launched for hard overlay rocks KWK-910 at BOT KWB "Turow" S.A., designed by SKW Zgorzelec. Polish designers have also developed a very successful series of types of dumping conveyors ZGOT. Those dumping conveyors are competitive to equivalent German products, considered to be the best in the world. For instance, a dumping conveyor ZGOT-15400 built for PGE KWB Belchatow S.A. and designed by SKW Zgorzelec.

Another example are caterpillar conveyors for drive stations. Poland has become a major producer of technically advanced conveyors of series of types TUR, TC, designed by Poltegor-projekt, or recently TG designed by SKW Zgorzelec for mines in Bulgaria. Conveyors are usually built by FUGO Konin and ZPR PGE KWB Belchatow. The excavators, dumping conveyors and transporters have been well received by users abroad, as manifested in contracts with mines in India, Greece or Bulgaria.

Another Polish specialty is designing and construction of complete belt conveyors for mines and other sectors. For instance, conveyors for coal transportation in power plants. Poltegor-project is the leading designer while FUGO Konin is the leading manufacturer. Belt conveyors are provided with: power stations manufactured by Elektrobudowa of Katowice and conveyor belts with steel and cloth-rubber lines produced by SEMPERTRANS Group SEMPERIT of Belchatow, Fabryka Tasm Transporterowych Stomil Wolbrom and transmissions from MAAG GEAR ZAMECH of Elblag and from FUGO Konin.

Another area where Polish companies are specialists is comprehensive modernisation of key machinery that is bucket ladder excavators and dumping conveyors. The key designing offices in this sphere are SKW Zgorzelec and Poltegor-projekt. The relevant technologies have won appreciation in Germany, India or Bulgaria where modernisation works are under way of fundamental machines operated there.

For equipment of new KTZ systems in planned brown coal mines in Legnica or Gubin, Polish design offices - SKW Zgorzelec, Poltegor-projekt and Poltegor-Instytut and the manufacturers - KOPEX-FAMAGO, FUGO and FAMAK, are able to design and construct the required fundamental machinery and other equipment.

Those achievements prove that Polish companies, drawing on their potential, are able to build a new mining and power generation centre in Legnica or Gubin. n

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