Svitavy
KGHM Svitavy
Company TOS Svitavy was established in the year 1948 having more than 60 years tradition in machinery production.There were several periods of classical machinery production development, later two basic production programmes were stabilized – production of woodworking machines and production of chucks.
Image photography
By Viktor Macha in 2005.
Plant facts and figures
The plant have an annual capacity of 200000 tons.
The following processes are conducted in the plant:
- Foundry
This plant produces the following type of products:
- Castings
- Pig iron
Full description
Grey-iron foundry situated in northen part of Svitavy town was established in 1948 as a part of national enterprise TOS Svitavy.
The production was oriented on cases, beddings, supports, headstocks, stands and components for textile and food industry since the very beginnings.
With two former 700mm cold-blast cupola furnaces this direction is held until today.
Svitavy foundry is typical example of small compact smelting facility which used to be common in almost every czech town during the 20th century.