Tuesday, 02 December 2008 11:43

PRESIDENT: Piotr Baranowski
OPERATIONS: Energy & Telecommunications
ESTABLISHED: 1973  
www.zpasgroup.eu




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One of the major Polish producers in a field of electronics and telecommunication, ZPAS Group has been recently celebrating a significant anniversary - thirty five years of its activity. Manufacturing Journal presents company’s history, describes the road of transition to today position on a market, shows its offer, points out its goals and brings closer ZPAS’s mission and philosophy.

Written by: Agata Nowak 

ZPAS S.A.

ZPAS S.A is a fundamental core of the entire ZPAS Group. Without mentioning its developmental history and profile of activity, we won’t be able to completely understand the philosophy and mission of the whole group. From the establishment in 1973, ZPAS has been engaged in the manufacture of various industry cabinets and enclosures. At first, the company functioned as the Experimental Department of the Power System Automation Institute (IASE) in Wrocław. After a while on a market, it entered into the composition of the Research and Manufacturing Centre for Power System Automation (CNPAE). After 1989, company’s managers had decided to take some actions directed into the privatization process, which completed at the end of 1991. Since then ZPAS is a private joint-stock enterprise. The 90’s seems to be very profitable for ZPAS. The company was constantly growing, spreading ranges of its activity so far, that finally in 2004, by the strategic decisions of a board, ZPAS “gave birth” to the daughter company, metaphorically speaking. This new structural element, ZPAS-NET, took over a part of the whole production. Owing to that move, company’s manufacturing potential, employment level and sales have been increasing so dynamically, that in 2007 ZPAS S.A. launched a new huge production plant (over 10 thousand square meters) on a ground of Noworudzki Industry Park in Nowa Ryda – Słupiec. This plant is adequately equipped for the mass production, by operating with the Salvagnini automatic line. At the same time the company created in NOWA Ruda a special warehouse for the finished articles. Currently, ZPAS S.A. is a proud owner of two production plants - in Nowa Ruda – Słupiec, mentioned before, and in Przygórze. The second plant is specially designed for more individual and short-run production. In the same time, Przygórze is a main ZPAS location, and ZPAS Group Board’s office. And what exactly is being produced in ZPAS S.A.? Basically, the variety of cabinets and data communication enclosures (mainly 19” and 21” ones, plus server cabinets, telecommunication cabinets, EMC enclosures and others – both in floor-standing and wall-mounted versions). In the wide assortment of other cabinets we can find among the others: empty power cabinets (without electrical devices) and customized cabinets. The company also offers products made of stainless acid-resistant steel.

ZPAS-NET

As it was underlined above, on the first June of 2004 ZPAS made a structural partition by single out the separate ”daughter” company called ZPAS-NET. This second company was created by isolation of departments operating in the field of network and energetic solutions production. The “NET” part of the company’s name symbolize the offer of products, which are necessary for creating the ideal infrastructure of modern networks and supervision, control systems. There is also another, similarly important range of ZPAS-NET products, which includes the articles designed for the energetic branch using intelligent IT solutions. The company is developing really dynamically. We can find the confirmation of its successes in Nowa Ruda-Drogosław, where the company has just recently opened the second plant located in the area of Wałbrzyska Special Economic Zone. The official opening took place on 5th October 2007. The space of this new establishment is quite impressive – 800 square meters for the office section and 2 500 sq meters created for the manufacture processes. The ZPAS-NET offer includes structural cabling elements, telecommunications accessories, fibro optic distribution frames, outdoor cabinets, low-voltage cabinets and switchgear with electrical
devices, dispatch and control desks, mimic boards. What is innovative and original, ZPAS-NET offers also its own system – ZPAS Control Oversee, which combines several significant functions. Basically, the system proposed by the company supervises climatic conditions in server rooms, data communication and power cabinets, and elements of building and industrial automation.

ZPAS Group

ZPAS Group represents the best values, ideas, general goals and the common philosophy of the two enterprises, briefly described previously. It unites their production offer. The whole idea of this group underlies in the leading motif “solutions for connections”. This phrase appeals to the virtues of offered articles, to the benefits of their usage, to the well-developed system of the company-customer communication, to the partnership, technological consulting and to the really high quality of the client services, form the first contact to the realization of order. The positive and opened attitude towards the receivers is one of the most important points in the company’s activity. Without the tended doubled-sided communication ZPAS would not have been in this significant place on a market right now. As a producer, ZPAS Group operates in harmony with the philosophy of maintenance the good repute elaborated during the 35 years in business. In the common opinion the company is a trustworthy partner. It provides its clients with the products of the highest quality, in the short time of order realization. Additionally, the prices are very favorable. The electronic and telecommunication branch requires a particular care for details and a wide knowledge of the latest modernizations. The IT systems and other articles designed for those fields of industry have to posses the right, obligatory parameters and virtues. It is more complicated, when we take for the consideration the fact, that they also have to answer to the individual client’s needs and requirements. This proper high-tech technology answer is one of the main company’s goals. In the terms of ZPAS Group work capital, the company is not only proud itself of the modern technological park with the newest machine lines of production, but more importantly, it boast of its employees. ZPAS’s work stuff is composed with highly educated and specialized, young, creative persons, who are directed into the innovative future, but simultaneously draw the tradition and information from the 35 years of the company’s experience. The modern technology and well planned organization of the manufacturing process is controlled and managed by the INFOR ERP LN computer system, which supports company’s activities and provides its successful actions. Among the other distinctions and titles, ZPAS Group manages its product quality in accordance with norms and standards of ISO 9001:2000. Its environmental politics is also appropriately coordinated, harmoniously to the Environment Management System certificate ISO 14001:2004. Owing to the great strategy, people-centered philosophy, and a expansive mission ZPAS Group and its products are well-known and appreciated both, in Poland and abroad. Beyond the manufacture activities, the company is also occupied with the coordination of sales. The vast network of its sale agencies numbers more than dozen all over the country. ZPAS is also know as a one of the major Polish exporters. Company’s products through the network of the external representative find their way to the such markets as: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine. ZPAS Group’s managers underline that thanks to this forceful activity on the world’s markets the company promotes not only Polish trade mark, but also a trade mark of the manufacturer - an EU exporter. It supports Polish economy, and shows that without a doubt, Polish products and services count.