ZVU Engineering a.s.

ZVU Engineering a.s. is from its establishment a direct successor of more than 145-year tradition of machinery production of ZVU and its legal predecessors. Since the First Czech Joint-Stock Machinery Works was founded in 1869, the Company has been manufacturing machines and equipment for food and chemical industries, both for domestic and export markets. In 20th century this program was expanded also in manufacturing and delivery of process units and plants for power and ecology industries.

At competing on markets, ZVU Engineering focuses on deliveries with a higher added value of engineering activities. Main strategy applied consists in minimizing risks in all stages of project preparation and implementation, both from the client´s and ZVU Engineering points of view. To eliminate risks, qualified and motivated team provides major instrument together with full understanding and professional analysis of the client´s technical and economical requirements, and last but not least with the accumulated know-how of ZVU Engineering and its legal predecessors in given branch. As an example, the mentioned know-how can be presented by more than 1.6 million drawings placed in company archives.

The Company makes efforts to build long-term partnership, both with the clients and suppliers. We are persuaded such an attitude facilitates cooperation significantly, namely in so complicated branch represented undoubtedly by capital investments. We always try to provide a potential client with full assistance needed for preparation of its intention, either in form of elaborating an appropriate study, technical evaluation or a special offer. The aim of that procedure is entire understanding of the client´s needs and minimizing occurrence of eventual misunderstanding during the project implementation course, related to maintaining the cost budget and reaching the designed parameters. Detailed knowledge of price levels of process plants, its components and subcontractor’s activities in investment engineering allow ZVU Engineering to prepare qualified cost, technical and economic studies and quotations. At the same time ZVU Engineering continues to utilize synergy advantages resulting from financial, proprietorial and manufacture-technical background of ZVU Group. Affiliation to the group with manufacturing background is of beneficial effect both with regard to practical development of designers and engineers, who have a chance to follow and check implementation of their design works, and with regard to access to information related to manufacturing costs and technological procedures.

Our company position is based on the mentioned long-term tradition and exclusive knowledge resulting from that, for example in the field of coke oven chemistry, nitric acid production, pressure coal gasification, heat exchange and others. The company takes care of the know-how advancement by permanent implementation of research and development tasks. The tasks are focused on effectivity and ecology improvements of the

solutions offered by us. The company dedicates a lot of its technical and marketing capacities to the research and development activities.

The high quality of all deliveries and services obvious at present in highly competitive economy is a necessary precondition. In case of ZVU Engineering, taking into consideration deliveries of pressure equipment, the high quality is absolute condition. For a long time introduced quality system, in accordance with ISO 9001 standard series, has been extended by passing to quality management system according to ČSN EN ISO 9001:2009 standard.