Andrzej Jagiełło, President of Sandvik Mining and Construction Sp. z o.o.
“We export machines and equipment, most of it is intended for underground mining. Southern Europe is our main export market. In 2009 it generated around 30% of our total revenue. The greatest hit among our export products is our roadheaders.

“We have gained experience and learned the best European practice on projects we have carried out in Poland, Germany, Russia and Hungary. In 1989 we started to renovate historical buildings in the south-western Polish city of Wrocław.

Waste management in Poland needs to be adapted to EU directives, which require construction of efficient waste processing systems and regaining to a maximum degree all valuable ingredients it contains.

Ecology-friendly investments comprise a substantial section of Mostostal Puławy S.A. portfolio, the majority of which are contracted by power-engineering works and communal waste combustion plants in Poland and abroad.

ElektriMont started business operations in 1987 with a contract for electrical wiring for the 46-storey LOT and Marriott Hotel complex in Warsaw.

Stalprodukt S.A. is a leading manufacturer of highly-processed steel products like transformer steel, cold-formed profiles, road barriers and toroidal magnetic cores, and supplier of a broad range of other steel products. The company owes its good reputation and strong market position to its most precious capital – its employees.

“Looking back at the past 20 years, I think it has been a good time for construction. The Polish economy accelerated sharply and the number of investment projects and orders for construction companies increased,” Marek Michałowski, president of the Polish Association of Construction Industry Employers (PZPB), an organisation which brings together 100 companies, and President and General Director of Budimex SA, tells “Polish Market’s” Jerzy Bojanowicz.

Armatura Kraków S.A. is an eyewitness of Poland’s economic and political transformations. Its history goes back to the 1920s. Though its way to the market economy had many turns and bends. It today is successfully implementing a development programme consolidating its position of leader on the Polish market of sanitary fittings.