POLAND - Case Study

The market for hollowcore in Poland was boosted when, along with partners Ukraine, it won the race to host the European Football Championships in 2012. Spiroll has a long established reputation in Eastern Europe, so when Kon-Bet, one of the county’s leading construction companies, was looking to establish its own hollowcore production plant one name sprung to mind. Within 18 months of initial contact with Spiroll, Kon-Bet was celebrating the commissioning of its brand new factory and producing quality hollowcore from day one. For Kon-Bet the project started when it successfully won an EU grant to cover 50% of the investment of its proposed facility. Negotiations following the initial meeting led to Spiroll providing a total project management package covering everything from factory design and costing through to drawings for the local manufacture of the casting beds and supply of all the production machinery and accessories as well as commissioning and training. The turnkey project involved a total transformation of Kon-Bet’s existing precast factory. Equipment installed by Spiroll included its latest Universal Extruder which produces hollowcore slabs at sizes from 150mm through to 320mm deep using the same universal power unit. Kon-Bet also purchased all the necessary production accessories including SpirollCAD hollowcore design/production software, concrete distribution skip, multi-angle saw, bed cleaner, lifting/fixing clamps, stressing abutments and stressing equipment. But the Spiroll involvement didn’t stop at the commissioning of the new factory. As part of the company’s customer support programme, Managing Director, Stephen Carr, returned to Konin in April 2009 to help Kon-Bet launch its new capability at a weekend seminar to 130 leading Polish architects.