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Koelner invests confidence in Srube
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Koelner – Łańcucka Fabryka Śrub
Poland
Earlier this year the Koelner Group established full control of the Śrubex fastener factory in Łańcut, close to the south eastern borders of
Poland. Culminating over a year of patient share acquisition, Poland’s largest fastener making plant is now rapidly becoming the metal
production centre for the Koelner Group.
The blue sky and heat greeting us at Rzeszów meant a remarkable reservoir of engineering now be prepared chemically, rather a previous
airport are a welcome contrast from a drab capability, epitomised in Srube
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English July. The drive to the factory, a route tooling shop – now a mix of manual lathes and blast chambers. The latter are scheduled for
taken twice before over the last five years, takes equipment and new automatic CNC machines. removal once the new pickling line is fully proven.
around 30 minutes. Our host, Marek Lechowski, This and the wire drawing department employ The other major investment for 2007 was the
who is Srube
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director, explains that this remains the poorest The warehouse, nearing completion in 2006 hardening and tempering heat treatment line.
area of Poland, with unemployment still running when last we visited, is now fully operational, Srube
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as high as 25% despite the large houses housing 10,000 pallets serviced by modern their older technology and limited combined
springing up along the road and evident Jungheinrich material handling equipment.
development in the regional centre of Rzeszów. Product is still stored in metal bins, with a
With 700 people working in the factory Srube
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continues to be the largest employer in the small product or pack into KLTs for export markets. The
town of Ła´ncut, 20 kilometres east towards domestic market is still mainly supplied in the
Ukraine. bins. Additional warehousing for 2009/10 is
The arch across the factory gate trumpets the currently under consideration to handle the
change in ownership. The imminent sale of the introduction of Rawl products.
rather grandiose office building outside the gate 2007 saw some of the most significant
more subtly signals the Koelner approach to investment including the installation of a new
business. Financial administration and strategic Ebner Hicon/H2 bell annealer. The two bells,
decision-making are now centred at Wroclaw, operating with a 100% hydrogen atmosphere
Koelner’s headquarters, 450 kilometres to the and capable of handling 24 tonne batches of
west and north. New offices for onsite wire, have a monthly capacity of 1,000 tonnes.
administration and management are just being Annealing time varies between 19 and 24 hours
completed above one of the production floors, depending on the type of wire rod. Operational capacity still represented a significant bottleneck.
within the factory complex itself. since May 2007 they replace a vintage tunnel The ninth line adds 1,800kg/hr capacity and is
The Srube
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investment, visible on this visit as on the the new plant. The end result is significant atmospheric and temperature control of the four,
previous one, since the company was floated on improvement in preparation of wire for cold inline hardening furnaces and two tempering
the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2005. The heading, as well as higher productivity. furnaces.
transformation, though, is inevitably a A new Ekomer pickling line, installed this year In the cold forging halls there have also been
painstaking one and there remains a sense of at a total cost of around 2 million euros, partially significant changes, although, it must be said,
how much more is still to be achieved in a plant funded by the European Union, has supplanted the treacherous steel grid flooring remains. Most
that dates to the 1950s and had decades of self the old tunnel furnace. With potential throughput evident is the presence of the two Nedschroef
reliance during the Soviet era. While that still of 3,000 tonnes per month the new line provides formers transferred from Rawl at Glasgow, and a
means a legacy of older machinery it has also capacity for growth and means that all wire can third Nedschroef 526 4-station machine acquired
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