Press Release
Most, 3 September 2010 - Krušnohorské strojírny Komořany, part of the Czech Coal Group, won a major contract in Bosnia in early August. The company was successful in an international tendering procedure conducted by The World Bank and concerning the coal handling system at the Tuzla power station. The part of the contract in which the company will participate accounts for about one half of the total value of the contract, which amounts to EUR 8 million.
Krušnohorské strojírny Komořany (KSK) participated in the tendering procedure as part of a joint venture with the German company Engineering Dobersek; it emerged the winner from the competition, in which the largest manufacturers from all over the world were the bidders. Primarily the combination of its technical solution and price was attractive for the selection commission.
The core of the coal handling system at Tuzla will be a combined stacker and reclaimer, the know-how for which is proprietary to KSK. It will be an innovated model based on the concept of the USSK combined stacker and reclaimer, which is also used in the Czech Coal Group’s extraction companies. However, the version for Tuzla will be substantially modernised. One of its features will be remote control of the machine from a control room. The stacker and reclaimer will be manufactured in KSK, while the subsequent assembly will take place in Bosnia.
The total time for the implementation of the project for the coal handling system at the Tuzla power station has been set at 22 months. The manufacture and assembly of the stacker and reclaimer is to take approximately 18 months, and KSK is to start making it before the end of this year. Assembly in Bosnia is planned from mid-2011. A team of about 25-30 people, most of whom will come from Bosnia but work under the supervision of Czech design engineers, will be responsible for the assembly. KSK’s entire production section will be involved in the manufacture of each of the mechanical and electrical engineering components of the machine. For KSK, this project means its very first entry of the Balkans, i.e., an area with a large energy potential.
The Czech Coal Group includes Czech Coal a.s., a trader in energy commodities, mainly brown coal, electrical energy and greenhouse gas emissions allowances, which also provides shared services within the Group, and Litvínovská uhelná a.s., which manages the largest coal deposit in the Czech Republic, Vršanská uhelná a.s., whose coal reserves within the currently existing mining limits will last until 2058, and a number of other service companies. REN Power CZ, a.s., a major investor in renewable energy sources, and FitCraft Production a.s., a prominent Czech manufacturer of photovoltaic systems, also form a part of the Group.
Contact:
Gabriela Benešová
Spokesperson for the Czech Coal Group
Tel.: +420 476 203 141
GSM: +420 725 327 758
g.benesova@czechcoal.cz
www.czechcoal.cz
Czech Coal Group
E-mail: ccg@czechcoal.cz
Czech Coal a.s.
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