In 2022, we completed the production of platforms for the new assembly line for Airbus. Today, these platforms with a total weight of 400 tons are already installed in Toulouse, France, where the main and largest production Airbus plant is located.

In the past, the largest airliner in the world, the Airbus A380, was also produced here. Today, the plant, which employs 20,000 people, focuses on the assembly of the A320, A330, and A350 series aircraft. In addition to the production of the construction of the assembly line platforms, our Hustopeče plant also carried out the surface protection of these structures, which was done by airless coating. 

Last summer we completed the entire reconstruction of the hot dip galvanizing plant in Bezdružice in West Bohemia. We put the galvanizing plant into full operation in the last autumn. The SIGNUM Bezdružice galvanizing plant is  currently the state-of-the-art and best equipped hot-dip galvanizing plant in  the Czech Republic and it is among the absolute leaders in  the field of hot-dip galvanizing in Europe.

The most important part of the reconstruction was the construction of a new large zinc furnace of 7.5 x 1.8 x 3 metres in size, owing to which the galvanizing plant is able to galvanize steel structures of much larger dimensions than before. During the construction of the new galvanizing plant, emphasis was placed primarily on the high safety of its operation and on compliance with the most stringent hygiene and environmental standards in terms of noise and production of fumes. 

State-of-the-art machinery and technology are used in the hot-dip galvanizing process, the galvanizing plant is semi-automated and largely controlled by software.  In the hot-dip galvanizing plant, a so-called extraction pickling shop was installed, where the operator no longer moves between the pickling baths. Electric loading trolleys are used instead of conventional forklift trucks. Throughout the galvanizing process, a rocker arm or a galvanizing beam, on which the material to be galvanized is suspended, is moved by overhead cranes. The entire galvanizing plant is roofed so that all the material, incl. the "black" material is well protected against adverse weather conditions before galvanizing.

During the whole last year, we had gradually galvanized the overhauled, richly decorated Art Nouveau railings of the Prague’s Čech Bridge in our Bezdružice galvanizing plant. 169 meters long bridge connecting the Curie Square on the right-hand bank s with the Edvard Beneš Embankment on the left-hand bank, is the only such large ornate bridge structure in the Czech Republic that is a protected technical monument. The individual parts of the overhauled railings are gradually galvanized in Bezdružice, while the first parts of the railings were galvanized in the original "old" galvanizing plant and now we are continuing the project in the new galvanizing plant.

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